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Originally Posted by porkupan
Wow, amazing stuff! Amazon is going after the people who would watch commercials and accept ads on their spam-terminal (a.k.a. ebook device) in order to save 25 bucks. Sure looks like a great deal, doesn't it?
Of course, $25 is a lot of money in some parts of the world, but in the U.S. it no longer is. There must be some people who would give their email address to Chinese spammers for the privilege of saving $3 on a purchase of an eight-dollar SD card, but in my opinion they are doing a major disservice to their own email account. Now Amazon wants a piece of that game: to spam you, and it will give you $25 for it. Special offers! Yeah!
Who is going to buy this piece of crap? Well, I am sure there will be some takers. Mostly students or starving artists (do they read?), who will soon hack their "KSO" to convert it into just "K". Many of those cheapskates won't be buying much content from Amazon (if they can afford to buy ebooks from Amazon, they are probably not interested in saving $25 to get spammed). So, it's a pure hardware dump. With those production numbers the cost of manufacturing a kindle must have gone all the way down to $50...
I am surprised that Bezos didn't give the spam-kindle away for free with a mandatory $10-a-month content subscription (cancellable any time after 3 years). Well, maybe he will, half a year from now.
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People who buy a $114 Kindle because they cannot afford the $25, won't be able to afford to buy any eBooks.