Refurbished Kindle DX back in stock
June, 2010 Update: The refurbished kindle dx is back in stock after a long absence -
- Refurbished Kindle DX for $399. This is the version with global whispernet.
- Refurbished Kindle DX US for $349. This only gets whispernet in the US. Outside the US you have to download books on your PC and then transfer them to your Kindle.
They are refurbished by Amazon and $140 and $90 cheaper than a new kindle dx. It’s interesting how when you include refurbished kindles you realize that Amazon has nearly all the price points covered – $139, $169, $189, $349, $399, $489.
Kindle 2 price increased from $259 to $270 – Perhaps a mistake?
Update: It was a mistake. It’s back at $259.
The price of the Kindle 2 (international) has suddenly jumped from $259 to $279. It was $279 as of 1:29 am PST.
It is probably a mistake because there is no reason to increase the price when the Nook is at $259. Thanks to Chan Chi Kit for his thread at Amazon’s Kindle Forums.
All the other pages (main page, kindle dx page, etc.) list the price as $259. So it’s either a very recent change or a mistake.
Kindle TV Ad
Thanks to Jim for the update on a Kindle TV ad. Can’t find the video on YouTube though some forums are saying it’s the winner of the Amazon Kindle Commercial Contest. This is it –
This was my favorite ad – However, the girl who’s done it (the same one featured in the video) is hardly an amateur so not sure how she’s allowed to win an amateur contest. The advertisement is genius though.
If Amazon are advertising Kindle 2 it greatly diminishes the chances that Kindle 3 comes out this year.
Google Books have Magazines
Teleread has the scoop on how Google Books has 1,860 issues of Life Magazine and a bunch of other magazines.
The Official Google Blog also talks about it and the magazines include Black Belt, Billboard, Nutrition, BestLife, and Baseball Digest.
UK Book Prices might rise
The Bookseller has an article on how paper prices in the UK are about to increase 8% and that would force printers to pass on the increase to publishers.
In 2007 and 2008 the price hikes were just 2 to 4% and printers had absorbed costs themselves. This time they share.
This is another interesting factor i.e. cost of manual labor and raw materials is going to keep increasing for books while ebooks keep getting cheaper as bandwidth and storage keep getting cheaper.
Lulu jumps into main stream books
One of the biggest book sites, Lulu, which used to do just self-published books has jumped into published books in a big way -
offering 200,000 titles from popular authors such as Dan Brown and Malcolm Gladwell.
You’ll now find their works — and about 200,000 other eBook titles from traditionally published authors — in the Lulu Marketplace. We’ve added them through agreements with Ingram and other distributors to make their public catalogs available on our site.
Lulu is bigger than Gutenberg so its sort of a big deal.
Lulu also just added support for ePub and DRM (Nov 3rd) so they’re certainly making strides.
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