Amazon Kills U.S. Kindle, Cuts International Price
October 23rd, 2009 admin
Perhaps to avoid consumer confusion, or to grab back a few headlines from Barnes and Noble’s sweet looking Nook e-reader, Amazon has dropped the Sprint-powered U.S. Kindle and now sells just the international version along with the super-sized DX. And the price has also been dropped to $260, the same as the old Kindle 2 and the same as the Nook. It looks like this fight is on . Those of you who already bought the International Kindle for $280 upon launch, you’ll get a $20 refund from Amazon. Here’s the e-mail I got: Good news! Due to strong customer demand for our newest Kindle with U.S. and international wireless, we are consolidating our family of…
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readingYA (YA reader) : RT @KindleWireless: This Saturday 1 lucky winner will get a FREE New Graphite Kindle DX, follow and RT to enter #contest... Updated : 2010-07-29T19:08:30Z | Reply | View Tweet |
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bensmithinc (Ben Smith) : @caseyswoods agreed, I think the kindle is a word processor, it was a transition technology, but do like ideas about distribution.. Updated : 2010-07-29T19:08:29Z | Reply | View Tweet |
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VanessaPNoble (Vanessa Noble) : Went to the library yesterday and one of the librarians was reading a kindle, seems wrong somehow.. Updated : 2010-07-29T19:08:25Z | Reply | View Tweet |
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RobT43 (Rob Terry) : At least the Kindle is finally in the right price range... Updated : 2010-07-29T19:08:25Z | Reply | View Tweet |
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swaggg77 (sk) : RT @ConanObrien: The Kindle 3 was released yesterday. I read about it on my iPad... Updated : 2010-07-29T19:08:25Z | Reply | View Tweet |
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