PCWorld posted on a rumor that Amazon.com will soon be giving its Kindle eBook Reader away FREE. While many feel this is a given regarding Amazon Prime customers, there is a trend in Kindle sales that predicts its relative pricing free fall will end at a FREE eBook Reader by November of 2011.
CNN offers more on the topic here.
While there’s still lots of time to debate the reasons why this might make sense to Amazon, the idea of anyone giving away free technology is an alien concept. However, a FREE Kindle loaded with reasonably priced best sellers certainly cools off the discussion about the high price of the eBooks we want to read on it.
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I guess I’m missing what you’re going after here but why would the Kindle be free? Are you talking about the older versions to help clear out the old stock and maybe interest people in buying the newer ones?
They have been coming out with new benefits for Amazon Prime members. I think this may be due to the fact that some Prime Members perceived value of the program was not there. You now have access to watch certain movies and TV shows for free and recently were given a cloud drive as well. So this would be very much in the same vein as that. The Kindle itself is actually a loss leader for the device itself. The ebooks is where Amazon actually makes it’s money. They would lock in many new customers to the ebook format and would also possibly gain more Prime members depending on how the promotion works.