Amazon drops price on their Kindle 2 to $299

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00154JDAI?ie=UTF8&tag=f033-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=B00154JDAI

by kirse • 17 years ago

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pclark• 17 years ago

just launch in UK

ntoshev• 17 years ago

In the rest of the world too. Just allow me to put my own data SIM in it.

rbanffy4• 17 years ago

And, while we are at it, please include some wi-fi in the bundle. It's a shame to market it to students and not letting them use on-campus wi-fi data links. 3G when there is a wifi link available seems such a waste of spectrum...

yan• 17 years ago

I so hope they lower the DX next.

jli• 17 years ago

i would buy it immediately if is supported chinese

rbanffy4• 17 years ago

I would buy immediately if it supported GSM networks (or, at least, wi-fi)

potatolicious• 17 years ago

Why? The EV-DO modem is plenty fast and requires no user intervention whatsoever. WiFi in this case would simply add more user configuration with negligible benefits (you're downloading BOOKS, not YouTube videos).

And why would GSM/CDMA matter at all? It's not as if you're paying for the service...

leviathant4• 17 years ago

Yarr, smooth use of an affiliate tag there, kirse.

staunch• 17 years ago

Not cool in my book. tag=f033-20 -- It seems like the affiliate ID is also intentionally made to look like it isn't one. LAME.

mediaman• 17 years ago

Does that actually make any money though? I often wonder what the purpose of chasing a few bucks here and there is if it doesn't make much and isn't scalable.

Maybe it does make some money.

jraines4• 17 years ago

I guess you're not being critical, but I'm going to defend kirse anyway.

I think it's disingenuous to use affiliate links if someone said, "Hey, where can I buy a Kindle?" or "what's the best ebook reader I can buy online?". But in this case, if you saw this link and said "Oh crap! This is news to me and I've been waiting for a price drop" . . . then by all means kirse deserves an affiliate payout.

KWD• 17 years ago

I see no excuse for dropping an affiliate link on a submission to HackerNews. It applies not just to the kindle, but anything one would buy after follwoing the link to Amazon, and even at a later time when purchase is not even related to this article. I visit comments first, before link, but I'm sure many others would be impacted. Affiliate links should be discouraged altogether on a site like this, and worthy of banning/suspension.

leviathant4• 17 years ago

Hmm. Getting sidetracked, but how is it disingenuous to use your affiliate link when someone asks you where to buy a Kindle? They're only available on Amazon, and it doesn't raise the price at all if they buy through an affiliate link.

In my opinion, lines are crossed when you suggest a less than optimal solution/link because it'll earn you more money. For example - on my NIN site, when an album becomes available for pre-sale, I list each vendor that we find along with their price, even if they're selling it cheaper than Amazon. If I were to ONLY suggest Amazon for pre-orders when I knew better deals were to be had, that's where I feel one starts losing ethics points.

I think the bottom line, for a site like HN, or a message board, or anything like that -- it's up to the owner/administrator of the site. I don't know how much work goes into the administration of HN, but the content is almost entirely crowdsourced. Were it my site, I'd probably strip (but not replace) all affiliate code from links, but I don't really think it's unethical to have posted that to HN with a link. Were it me, I'd have commented in the interest of full disclosure.

And that's pretty much all I was doing with my first post - disclosing something that may be of interest to readers here :)

Amazon drops price on their Kindle 2 to $299

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