Amazon’s Secret Sale on Kindles?
For the last two days, Amazon’s been selling the Kindle 3 at an even lower price than usual. A refurbished Kindle 3 cost just $129.99 — a reduction of more than 31% from its usual sales price of...
View ArticleReactions to Amazon’s Newest Ad for the Kindle
How much has Amazon spent on TV ads for the Kindle? Just last year, they spent over $82 million, according to an article in Ad Week magazine. That’s more than four times what they’d spent the year...
View ArticleWhere Can You Buy New Kindles?
A funny thing happened when I called my local AT&T store. “AT&T doesn’t carry the Kindle,” their sales clerk told me. (Adding “Sorry about that…”) But he was contradicted by a new press...
View ArticleHow Many Kindles Are There?
A new financial analysis just reached a startling conclusion: That within five years, there will be 53.87 million Kindles (and other digital readers) in the world. “That’s a lot of e-reader devices,”...
View Article19 New Games for the Kindle!
It’s only been a month since I wrote about games available on the Kindle — but during that month, 19 new Kindle games were released! On August 23rd, Amazon even released another new free word game...
View ArticleBuy a new Kindle for just $85?
Normally a new wi-fi Kindle costs $139 — and even if you buy one that’s loaded with Amazon’s “Special Offers,” it’s still $114. But today, Amazon advertised a refurbished wi-fi Kindle 3 (with special...
View ArticleIs Amazon buying Netflix?
People were baffled when Netflix created a separate service for customers who wanted to watch “streaming” movies online. (This week Netflix shifted its core business — where DVDs are mailed to your...
View ArticleNewest Kindle Ad –“She Buys a Kindle!”
She finally bought a Kindle! For five months, Amazon’s been running a series of ads where a patient young man talks to a blonde woman about his Kindle. But Wednesday Amazon released a new ad — the...
View ArticlePrice War on Black Friday — Kindle, Nook, and iPad
It’s on! Amazon’s Kindle is now engaged in a full-fledged price war on Black Friday with both the iPad and the Nook. Amazon just slashed the price on their tablet-sized Kindle DX to just $259, offering...
View ArticleAmazon Announces a Black Friday Sale on the Kindle DX!
Amazon waited until Thanksgiving Day to announce a big discount on the Kindle DX. The “giant Kindle” with the 9.7-inch screen is now on sale for just $259 — a massive 32% discount from its usual price...
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