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Amazon Launches Personalized Kindle Accessories

Amazon_personalized_accessoriesAmazon is launching a new service that lets users personalize Kindle covers and skins, at the same price as a standard cover. To create personalized accessories, customers can upload their own photographs, or choose from a library of images, logos, designs and patterns—including popular comic, movie and television show graphics from Peanuts, National Geographic, Breaking Bad, and Star Trek, among others.

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