We now have a new Amazon-powered store that is completely ours. I’m proud to present the new Rudy’s Corner Store! In our store, you’ll find a unique shopping experience that is geared to our articles here at Rudy’s Corner. The Amazon connection means your order is taken securely, and your merchandise is shipped promptly. So, what exactly will you find in our store?

We are striving to add the musical and video selections, and other products mentioned at Rudy’s Corner, on our site here. For the time being, we have mainly the items that we have mentioned in articles here. Our listings will expand in the next week or two to include many items that Rudy recommends or finds very interesting. These can run the gamut: music on CD, SACD and DVD-Audio; video on DVD, video games (especially for Nintendo DS, Wii and GameCube), and plenty of electronic gadgets that are worth considering.

As always, your purchases help keep our family of websites up and running. Until the end of this year, Amazon is giving us a 4% bonus for ordering through our personalized stores, so take advantage of it. Buying through our stores costs the same as it does through Amazon directly, so there are no additional fees involved.

Some of our other websites have their own specialized stores in them as well. Check these out!

The A&M Corner Store: this will feature many classic A&M artists’ releases. The A&M Corner staff hand picks these items for the store, so you will be assured you’re getting the best available version that won’t hurt you in the wallet too much. We also present hard-to-find items that are undoubtedly expensive, but available nonetheless if you need them.

Herb Alpert/Tijuana Brass Shop: this is a scaled-down version of our A&M Corner store that features only recordings by Herb Alpert and the Tijuana Brass. You’ll find both available and out-of-print titles listed for your convenience.

The Cal Tjader Shop: our Cal Tjader site is still under construction, but we’ve improved our site by adding our store to it. For now it simply lists all “Cal Tjader” items as a category search, but coming soon, we will be splitting up the albums into categories (by label and era), and adding categories for tributes and similar artists. The Tjader Shop will be a unique shopping experience for Latin Jazz fans!

Nipper’s Place: our RCA collector site and discussion board has an RCA-based shop that features many popular (non-classical) early RCA artists. Again, we’ll feature a handful of selections hand-picked by the staff, and have full category searches so you can access Amazon’s vast inventory to complete your selections.

The Perfect Toys: having a couple of kidlets roaming the hallowed halls of Casa Rudy, it’s not unnatural for us to have a site devoted strictly to toys! Our main page is a portal for all toys on Amazon, but we are adding categories with “Rudy Recommends…” subcategories where we can recommend the best of the best from that category.