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Amazon.com (NASDAQ: AMZN) today announced the national newspaper and website the Onion has created five e-Book collections exclusively for the Kindle Store (www.amazon.com/kindlestore). These collections, presented by the Onion –“America’s Finest Tech News,” “Chronicles of the Area Man,” “The Finest Reporting on Literature, Media, and Other Dying Art Forms,” “The Best of Jim Anchower,” “The Best of Herbert Kornfeld”–are $2.99 and will be exclusive to the Kindle Store for one year.

“Our customers are fans of books bythe Onion in print format, and the Onion is one of our most popular Kindle Periodicals,” said Russ Grandinetti, Vice President, Kindle Content. “We hope Kindle readers will enjoy these five exclusive titles, which are the perfect way to add even more levity to your holiday season.”

“We are excited to present these five new titles to our readers which were created exclusively for Kindle,” said Marc Lieberman, VP Business Development at the Onion. “We are always looking for innovative ways to publish ‘America’s Finest News Source,’ and this is a natural fit.”

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