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Amazon is offering a bundle of apps worth $220 for absolutely nothing in a two-day deal beginning Christmas Eve. Forty apps are up for grabs on Amazon’s website, ranging from Angry Birds Space, HD Fire Edition (originally $2.99), to the Oxford Advanced Learner’s Dictionary, 8th Ed. (originally $30.99) to The Muscular System Manual: The Skeletal Muscles of the Human Body (originally $60.99).
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Employees collect merchandise ordered by customers for shipment from the Amazon.com distribution center in Phoenix, Arizona, Nov. 26, 2012. David Paul Morris—Bloomberg/Getty ImagesA worker collects order items at the Fulfilment Centre for online retail giant Amazon in Peterborough, central England, on Nov. 28, 2013.Andrew Yates—AFP/Getty ImagesMerchandise sits on shelves before shipment at the Amazon.com Inc. distribution center in Phoenix, Arizona, Nov. 26, 2012. David Paul Morris—Bloomberg/Getty ImagesAn employee packs merchandise for shipment at the Amazon.com Inc. fulfillment center in Phoenix, Arizona, Dec. 2, 2013. David Paul Morris—Bloomberg/Getty ImagesA picture shows the Fulfilment Centre for online retail giant Amazon in Peterborough, central England, on November 28, 2013, ahead of Cyber Monday on December 2nd, expected to be one of the busiest online shopping days of the year.Andrew Yates—AFP/Getty ImagesAn employee packs orders in the Fulfilment Centre for online retail giant Amazon in Peterborough, central England, on November 28, 2013, ahead of Cyber Monday on December 2nd, expected to be one of the busiest online shopping days of the year.Andrew Yates—AFP/Getty ImagesEmployee Maria Miller loads boxes onto a conveyer belt for shipping at the Amazon.com Inc. distribution center in Phoenix, Arizona, U.S. on Monday, Nov. 26, 2012. David Paul Morris—Bloomberg/Getty ImagesInterior view of the hall of a logistics center of the online shopping company Amazon, taken on March 26, 2014 in Leipzig, eastern Germany.
Peter Ending—AFP/Getty ImagesPackages sit in regional delivery dividers ahead of distribution at the Amazon.co.uk Marston Gate 'Fulfillment Center,' the U.K. site of Amazon.com Inc. in Ridgmont, United Kingdom, Dec. 3, 2012. Simon Dawson—Bloomberg/Getty Images
The apps can be downloaded from the Amazon Appstore, which is available only on Amazon’s Fire phones and tablets and Android devices. While the Amazon Appstore is pre-installed on Amazon’s devices, Android users have to download the Appstore and modify their download settings to make it work.
Amazon’s year-end blowout sale also includes discounts on Kindle e-books, Amazon Instant Video titles and other Amazon hardware.