Amazon starts selling packaged software in India

Amazon.in has started selling packaged software in India. The company’s software store has over 1500 products across security software, office tools and educational software.amazon-india

“The store offers products from all leading international brands such as Microsoft, Kaspersky, Norton and McAfee as well as domestic players such as Quick Heal, Tally, S.Chand, iDaa and Practice Guru,” it said in a statement.

“We are delighted to launch the Software store on Amazon.in. Customers in tier-2 and tier-3 cities have limited access to genuine software products and this is further aggravated by the wide prevalence of counterfeit products in the market. The new Software Store on Amazon.in fills in this gap by providing an easy and convenient access to genuine software for customers across India,” said Samir Kumar, Director Category Management, Amazon India.

The company is promising full guarantee and no-questions-asked easy return policies for software sold from its website.

The store will have over 400 security software split across Anti-virus, Internet Security and Total security products, including those from Kaspersky, ESET and McAfee.

Business & Office store has products across Operating systems, Microsoft office and other utility software like E-mail extractors, accounting software among others.

The Software Store on Amazon.in also includes over 600 titles in educational content sold in PC-ROM/CD, DVD and USB formats ranging from test preparation material (SBI PO, IIT JEE, Olympiads) to academic supplement materials for all classes with great introductory offers from leading brands.

Practice Guru which has a wide selection of test preparation software across all competitive exams is offering up to 50% discount on Olympiad preparation products for customers preparing for the upcoming Olympiads.