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Originally Posted by RainingLemur
I know. (I have Prime)
But, the Fire currently is more than $79. Say I sign up for Prime, pay the $79, get a Fire, and never renew my membership...is Amazon going to bill me for the difference?
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In the spirit of disclosure, I too have Prime. I got it before library books, and videos. I got it for 2 day shipping and sending Christmas presents cheap back when the price was $49 or $59. I usually buy 75 to 90 items a year from Amazon.
That said, lets talk about a "free" Kindle.
There are a lot of reasons to have a free Kindle, but the main one is to drive the other eReaders out of business. Agreed, iPad will stay around as well as other multiple purpose tablets, but a free Kindle would put tremendous pressure on Nook and Sony eReaders, not to mention all the branded eReaders. It would sort of clear the playing field of all but the strongest.
It reminds me of the browser wars. Netscape was ahead, and then MS gave their browser away. I used Netscape. It had one great advantage over MS IE. It would print any page without worrying about formatting.
I think that a free, even if it was low level, Kindle would kill all but one of the other browsers. You might think Sony would fail, but they seem to have the money. I believe because of the finances B&N would fall to the side, as well as the branded and smaller devices.
Of course iPad and the multipurpose tablets would remain along with Kindle and again my bet is on Sony also surviving.