New Reduced Price?
From the Inbox:
Kindle is now available for a new reduced, price, and as someone who’s shown an interest in the Kindle…it’s only $359!
Oh be still my ebook heart.
And what, they’ve been watching my blog or something? How would they know I’ve had an interest in it or not? Just from looking at it’s product page? Everyone and there dog’s looked at it. My interest has only gone so far as the price. Gotta love them marketing email blasts.
Sorry, Amazon, that price is still a bit too much on the full of itself pedestal. What a LMAO thing to see first thing on a Monday morning.
Now, where they’ll REALLY get some interest from me is if they ever offer different, less suped up levels of the Kindle, with appropriate lower prices to match, as the iPoders do (or did much better once upon a time).
I’m off to see if that one seller dude on EBay has more of the eBookwise devices.
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LOL, I got that email too.
I read it thinking, is this a joke? I love that the thing is wireless, but all my books as Kindle editions? I don’t think so. In fact, thanks to the Kindle, we no longer get the discounted price for many paperback books that we used to automatically, just for shopping at Amazon.
Amazon, I shopped for your auto discount, the ease and convenience of your great free shipping (cuz it is so easy to buy $25 worth of books for me) and it blows stinky butt chunks that you no longer offer a good discount for every single book you sell (for the luv of gawd, please don’t stop discounting hardbacks next or I’ll really blow my top) just because you went and blew your own minds with your own special reading device. Take your Kindle and put it where the sun don’t sparkle.
With the cost of gas, maybe we’ll see the free shipping requirement go up to $30 worth of books to qualify. I can only hope that they can afford to keep it at the $25 mark, but hell, everything changes sooner or later.
There are some great points to the Kindle, but I’m obviously more in love with Amazon’s past standards of quality re to pricing.
And as is now popular in Blogosphere… /rant
$25 ? So unfair. To get free shipping in Canada we need to order for 39$. And our dollars are at parity. *sigh* Not that it’s so hard to find 40$ of books to order. That’s precisely the problem :-DD
I’m too cheap to buy any kind of e-book reader, so Kindle can send me any number of e-mails they want and it won’t change my mind. I’m known for losing all kind of small items, from cameras to sunglasses and mittens and *gasp* wallets, so spending money on small things is so not a good idea for me. I hate reading from a screen anyway. Until they make paperback-sized screens on e-readers I’ll keep prefering my print copies to electronic words.
Oops, sorry, Mary lol. Yeah, I’m kinda pleased it’s only $25 to qualify for the free shipping. That’s way reasonable IMHO.
The Kindle is supposedly equipped with a screen about the same size as a paperback, so that is one possible plus. I’m still just not willing to fork over the price. There are other similar devises that have just as big a screen, have loads of other good options as well and are cheaper.
I don’t really understand what the big deal about it being wireless is? Can you enlighten me?
YAY for the eBookwise! I’m telling you, it’s the best. From what I’ve read (I haven’t actually played with the Kindle) the eBookwise offers more than the Kindle for a dedicated reader anyway. I don’t know, I think it’s way overrated.
I’ve gotten used to having wireless here at the house. Our printers, the internet, everything, wireless. In a house as old as ours, where running cables and lines for this and that becomes a headache, wireless is da bomb. For the Kindle, one less set of cables to keep track of is nice sounding. But only being able to download their format for books? Nuh uh.
Yes, I think it’s overrated too.