MOSCOW, May 13. / Correspondent. TASS-Telecom Kristina Antonova /. The largest online retailer Amazon will issue a virtual coins / Amazon Coins / for Kindle Fire tablets in the U.S., according to a press release on the official website of the company. U.S. users will get the device on their accounts for 500 coins, which equates to $ 5.
Amazon announced that users who will buy games, applications, and purchase anything within the applications themselves to virtual coins, will receive a 10% discount. Developers also will receive a fixed 70% of the coins spent on their application.
“Tens of millions of dollars available for conversion into coins Amazon, so our users can buy new applications,” – said in a press release.
As previously reported by the portal Techcrunch, the introduction of the new currency was announced back in February of this year. According to the portal, this service was created to attract new developers, as well as to increase the income of the company.
Amazon Coins – the beginning of a number of services that will be available in the future, not only in the United States. “We will continue to develop the service of virtual coins, which will allow a different use them,” – said Mike George, vice president of applications and games in the Amazon.
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