Thread: Rumor: Amazon Kindle to go worldwide with Vodafone?
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Old 12-10-2007, 01:46 PM   #21
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Originally Posted by Charbax View Post
Alisa, I think probably after Christmas, as long as Amazon can produce enough screens to satisfy a very large international demand, I am sure the Kindle will be available at $1 with a 24-month $19 subscription to the Kindle Store. Where those $19 have to be spent during the month and cannot be transferable to the next month. It's just like the way telecoms subsidize the mobile phones exactly in the same way.
For once, I will use this to be deliberately rude:

Amazon is currently selling all they can at $399. They will very likely not be able to meet the international demand. Why would they cost themselves money by offering to subsidize it?
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