Great. I just need them to send me 2 or 3 so we don't all fight over it.
Amazon Wants To Give A Free Kindle To All Amazon Prime Subscribers
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#22Amazon Prime is a great service on its face. If you buy from Amazon regularly, it pays for itself, if not in dollars than in convenience. I've been on the fence about readers for a while now. I'm a programmer, but I have a degree in American literature. Most of the books I own were written over a century ago. Unfortunately, these books simply don't come in a Kindle edition often enough to justify the purchase of the…
A lot of books that are out of copyright are available online for free in open formats that are readable on the Kindle. Project Gutenberg is full of classics that you can (and I do) read on the Kindle.
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#23So, uh, I'm an Amazon Prime customer that has already bought a Kindle. What do I get?
Edit: also, why the pic of the old Kindle? Are they giving away leftovers of the first edition?
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#24So, uh, I'm an Amazon Prime customer that has already bought a Kindle. What do I get? Edit: also, why the pic of the old Kindle? Are they giving away leftovers of the first edition?
I will give you 50% of market value for your Kindle.
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#25Earlier quoted context omitted.
Saying that Ann Coulter is a neo-con is like saying Bozo the Clown is an acclaimed stage performer. While her message is conservative themed, her tactic isn't to espouse conservatism, but rather to get people to read her column. The same's to be said for Arrington. It's a problem that all journalism has: the facts and what's popular usually don't mix.
Actually, I believe that Bozo the Clown is a fellow alum of my alma mater.
Singular alumnus (masculine) or alumna (feminine), often abbreviated "alum" to avoid having to remember any of that :)
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#26I see from other comments that this may not be true, but if it isn't, I'd advise that Amazon should start doing it as soon as they can. It would be an application of the "Gilette model" of sales -- sell the razor, or the printer, or the video-game console cheap, and make your money back on selling blades, cartridges, or cartridges respectively.
For a book-delivery platform like the Kindle, this strikes me as a natural model -- a user is likely to buy a large number of books over his lifetime, and the margin of profit on a $10 e-book makes the margin of profit on a music CD look humble.
There's also the point that the Kindle is not an obviously useful sort of device. Making it widely available will overcome customer reluctance to try it out it, ensuring that it either proves its worth and spreads quickly, or proves its worthlessness and fails quickly, and minimizes the amount of time that Amazon spends in new-product limbo either way.
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#27I'm a Prime customer, and I love it. I buy way more on Amazon than I used to, and I find it very convenient. It pays for itself on Christmas shopping alone. This could be a smart move. I've often thought about a Kindle, but never really wanted one bad enough to shell out for it (although I'm pretty sure I'll get the iPad). Dropping one in my lap, knowing that I spend a lot of money on Amazon, could be a very smart mo…
So true on Prime for Christmas, they should really advertise that angle much more during the holidays for those averse to crowded malls.
I also love the fact that the 2-day shipping often comes in 1 day b/c of the efficiency of Amazon's warehouse/distribution network.
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#28So, uh, I'm an Amazon Prime customer that has already bought a Kindle. What do I get? Edit: also, why the pic of the old Kindle? Are they giving away leftovers of the first edition?
Maybe the next version?
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#29Considering that kindle customers do not own the books they buy, Amazon's kindle will be Free as free first dose of cocaine.
Just like with libraries?
I buy books for a few hours of enjoyment. After I've read them, they just sit on a shelf and collect dust. Because most people are like this, the Kindle is not a poor value proposition. Even if you were only allowed to read the book exactly once, it would still be a better value (in terms of hours of time spent per dollar spent) than many things, like seeing a movie.
Everyone hates DRM, but everyone knows that DRM only lasts a few years for a given industry. Eventually the publishers realize that DRM is being used to lock them into a distributor, and they hate that more than "piracy". It happened with music, and it's starting to happen to books.
When people start getting arrested for sharing books with their lovers, then you can link to "The Right To Read" and say "I told you so". In the mean time, consider DRM as a bootstrap that will eventually go away.
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#30I'm a Prime customer, and I love it. I buy way more on Amazon than I used to, and I find it very convenient. It pays for itself on Christmas shopping alone. This could be a smart move. I've often thought about a Kindle, but never really wanted one bad enough to shell out for it (although I'm pretty sure I'll get the iPad). Dropping one in my lap, knowing that I spend a lot of money on Amazon, could be a very smart mo…
Prime really does pay for itself. I ordered enough on Amazon before getting prime that it was a no brainer. Amazon is also very generous about letting you share your prime subscription with family members. I already read quite a few books on my iPhone(Kindle app, and Stanza) so I would probably end up paying for a Kindle in book purchases over the life of the device. Seems like a win-win.
"Amazon is also very generous about letting you share your prime subscription with family members."
Yes. I invented three step-brothers with whom I share my membership. Effective cost is $20/household/year.