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Originally Posted by zelda_pinwheel
I just got an email from Amazon.
subject : Get Amazon Kindle at a New Reduced Price
"As someone who has shown an interest in
Kindle, you might be excited to know we
recently reduced the price to $359."
Now, I have to wonder. Amazon knows my shipping and billing addresses (which are the same, and are both in France). The email address i receive their mails on ends in .fr. When i've ordered from them, i've used a french credit card from a french bank to pay. given how much information they track about their customers, you'd think they would realise that a kindle is not really an option for me. So what is this ? Willful provocation ?? trying to make me jealous ?? or... are they planning to launch the Kindle in France, and they're trying to generate some reeeeally early buzz ?
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They just don't mind, and it does not cost
un sou de plus to them to spam you.
Can you imagine that my books published on Lulu.com (see my signature) appear on Amazon, but are said to be "unavailable" (while they are readily available, you bet).
Méthodes de voyous.... How do you say that in English?
By the way, were the Kindle available at an acceptable price here (
which means NOT 359 € !!!) it would be interesting to find whether it would sell, given that it is a closed system and severed to Amazon...
I'd bet it would not sell well; open systems (the one you can easily compile texts from anywhere on the net for) would sell better, I think...
Robert