First Special Offer for KSO owners: buy a specific book, get a $10 credit
I’ve got a
on the way.
One of the questions people have had with that Kindle ($114 instead of $139, but you agree to get ads and special offers) is how the special offer part would work.
I don’t know how it appears on the KSO yet, but they list it on the Amazon website as well:
http://www.amazon.com/gp/feature.html?docId=1000675981
This first deal (April 27, 2011, 12:01 a.m. (PDT) through May 21, 2011, 11:59 p.m. (PDT), while supplies last) lets you pick from one of 46 books, pay for it with a Visa card (Visa is the sponsor of the promotion), and get a $10 credit.
There are some great books there (The Heart is a Lonely Hunter, Kindred by Octavia Butler, The Hunger Games…), and many of them are well under $10.
So, you could get a book for free…plus maybe $5 to use for something else (like 5 ninety-nine cent books). 
This promotion is only for KSO owners.
This post by Bufo Calvin originally appeared in the I Love My Kindle blog.
April 30, 2011 at 4:52 am |
See… I totally think that if I didn’t already have a K3, I would go for the SO K3. I love a good deal like this one. Here, you get a book, and in most cases, you end up with more money at the end since the books are < 10$. I *love* free books!
I just wish there was a way to upgrade my existing kindle to a K3SO
April 30, 2011 at 12:00 pm |
Thanks for writing, tuxgirl! Great to hear from you!
I think many current owners would snap up the option…more than half of the respondents in my poll in this post:
http://ilmk.wordpress.com/2011/04/17/dont-hate-me-i-ordered-a-kindle-with-special-offers/
say they would accept ads on their current Kindles.
It’s an interesting selection of books…from public domain classics you could get for free (Moby Dick, for one) to “soon to be a major motion picture” current bestsellers (Hunger Games). I wonder how those selections were made…are the current books also paying Amazon an advertising fee?
Selling advertising has to be a low investment, relatively high return strategy for Amazon…that may make the investors happy.
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