The $100 Kindle (original K machine)

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By David Rothman

A $100 used Kindle shows up on Craigslist for the Washington, D.C., area. I don’t know if catches exist, so buyer beware. If nothing else, remember that Kindles can’t natively render ePub books.

Will we see more bargains like this? Never would I have suspected prices would drop so much, so quickly. The $100 Kindle is used, not refurbished. But perhaps the $149 price for refurbs is driving down used-Kindle prices.

The razor blade angle: Amazon’s Kindle Store reportedly may be backing off from offering free books. Could this be one way to help reduce the prices of new Kindles—by trying to jack up revenue through book sales instead? More of a razor blade strategy in action? And will Amazon try to raise book prices directly, given all the howls from large publishers about $9.95 bestsellers?

Related: $149 to be typical price for refurbished original Kindles? And $219 for reburbished Kindle 2?

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