The only real information in the entire article: "Amazon have announced a virtual currency for their Android App Store, [...] targeted at buying applications.

The only real information in the entire article: "Amazon have announced a virtual currency for their Android App Store, [...] targeted at buying applications. [...] Amazon Coins is a one way street, to ‘load up’ an account that can be used to buy applications in the Amazon App Store." The rest is just the author's wishlist.