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Originally Posted by ProfCrash
[...] I am guessing that it has out sold the other models since it went on sale and not in total.
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Right, Kindle with Special Offers would be bestselling on a per unit time basis since introduced. The news isn't that more Kindle with Special Offers have sold than other Kindle models in total but that the market has initially signaled tolerance of advertising in exchange for a discount on the hardware purchase.
I'm surprised that $25 was sufficient. I thought they'd have to ratchet it lower before finding the sweet spot, but it seems that $25 worked already. The question is how long the success can continue without further price cuts. That probably will depend on how good the offers are, how unintrusive their implementation continues to be, and how deep the latent market at the $114 price point is.