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get ready to go shopping on social media I'm Bridget Carey and this is your CNET update Facebook is testing out a way for you to go shopping while scrolling through your newsfeed some advertisements will have a Buy button and with a click you can purchase the item in the ad the whole transaction your credit card info shipping address everything it's all handled inside Facebook the network says it won't share your credit card info with other advertisers you may not see the Buy button all the time it's just a test right now offer to some small and medium-sized businesses in the US this is not the first time Facebook has dabbled an online shopping remember when you could buy actual physical gifts like teddy bears and chocolates and mail it to your friends that wasn't very successful so Facebook gifts are now just digital gift cards and there were Facebook credits a currency just for spending money on Facebook but that has been discontinued Twitter also is starting to get into the social shopping game last year it launched a partnership with American Express so card holders could get discounts by tweeting special hashtags Amazon started letting you shop on Twitter if someone tweets out a link to an Amazon product you can reply with a hashtag Amazon cart to add that item to your shopping cart Starbucks even let you tweet a cup of coffee well a tweet just actually sends someone a $5 gift card and as silly as it may sound Twitter is just getting warmed up the network acquired cards spring that's the company that links up credit cards with applications for mobile shopping so as social media companies try to become Amazon Amazon is trying to take on Easter Amazon has officially launched the Kindle unlimited service where for $10 a month you can get unlimited access to 600,000 ebooks and thousands of audible audiobooks and you can get them from any mobile device it's kind of like a Netflix for books and that's exactly what the company oyster offers oyster is also a $10 a month for unlimited book service the company Scribd also offers all you can read for $9 a month but what matters most is quality of content because not every Celer will be found on these services because not all publishers work with them just like the early days of Netflix it takes time to get quality titles and I should note that this Kindle unlimited service is different from what Prime members have which is called Kindle lending library that just gives Prime members one free book at a time on their Kindle but you know there is another service out there that can get you free e-book rentals it's called the public library that's your tech news update you can get more details on these stories and cnet.com and you can stay updated by subscribing to the podcast or following me on twitter from our studios in New York I'm Bridget Carey