Our Featured Contests
Stock Your Shelves!
Enter for your chance to win $1,000-worth of books, music, videos, and more.
Past Extravaganzas
Win a Cool Grand (Piano)!
Thank you everyone who signed up for a chance to win a beautiful Steinway baby grand piano. The lucky winner is Casey Wisecarver of Washington, D.C.! Watch for more great promotions from the Amazon.com music store.
And special thanks to our sponsors, Philips Music and Steinway and Sons.
What's That Song?
You listened and guessed the favorite songs of twenty top music artists. One lucky grand prize winner won $50,000 and prizes
from each of the participating artists. See the winners.
You Sent Them Music
Each day we presented one person or group "in the news" and you suggested the songs they could use. We chose the best entry and we sent the winning song (and the CD from which it hails) to the person or group "in the news." See the winners.
Comic Strip History Made
Read the world's first interactive, online comic strip. This interactive epic was coauthored by Pulitzer Prize-winning Garry Trudeau and nine visitors to Amazon.com. Trudeau authored the first and last panels and chose the winning submissions during two-weeks in May, 1998.
Thanks For Sharing Your Ideas
We invited our customers to share what they wanted in the Amazon.com music store. Our five winners each won a $1,000 Amazon.com Gift Certificate.
For Better and for Verse
Thanks to all the fantastic young poets who entered the Amazon.com Kids' "Be a Poet" Contest. Don't miss the winning entries!
Everybody's a Critic
It's true. And even though our Customer Review Contest is over, you can still write a review of any book in our catalog! For some inspiration, read the winning reviews written by some real pros--our contest winners.
The Verdict Is In!
Amazon.com's Street Lawyer Contest is officially over, and the winner has been drawn! The winner of the $25,000 prize is...(drum roll, please)...Jeri Sabadics of Weirton, West Virginia. Sabadics graduated from West Virginia University in 1996 and currently is a research assistant at WVU in the biochemistry department.
Customer #1,000,000
The winner is announced in our one-millionth-customer celebration!
The Greatest Tale Ever Told
Read the results of our Greatest
Tale Ever Told contest, "Murder Makes the Magazine," by John
Updike and 44 coauthors.
Historical Women, Everyday Fools, and Fast Modems
Women's History Month may be over, but women's history marches on. Check out the winners in our essay contest. Slipped on any banana peels lately? Take a look at the best entries from our April Fool's Day contest!
Some lucky folks are
set to browse at near-lightning speed--they won 56k modems on our site.
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