A search for the term “Kindle” produced two sponsored search listings promising huge discounts on Kindle. If you could save 90% on your Kindle, wouldn’t you be tempted to check out these listings? But a lot of these offers are too good to be true. Nobody likes a scam, but that’s usually what you get with these astonishing offers. I admit, I was tempted to figure out what was being sold for $64.95. I was sure it can’t be a real Kindle 2. To my surprise, the site was offering a Kindle 2 in new condition for $65. But here is what I was able to find in the site’s terms and conditions:

The checkout process consists for four actions required by the user the receive their product. The user must complete one advertiser offer from each of the 3 offer pages. The user must then refer 5 of their friends to do the same.

So it’s possible to get a $65 Kindle. It’s just next to impossible to finish all the steps and most likely you are going to have to sign up for offers that will cost you in the end. We all want Amazon to lower its prices on Kindle. Maybe the company could allow more people to sell their used or old Kindles or maybe it could offer Kindle for a lower price with a book subscription plan. But let’s be realistic here. Nobody is going to sell you a Kindle for $65 in brand new condition without a catch. So don’t fall for Kindle scams. Reporting some of these offers wouldn’t be such a bad idea.

Your turn: what’s the most outrageous Kindle scam you have seen online?

This tell me two things:

1. Amazon has been working hard to make the Kindle platform more popular, and this announcement shows that Kindle is not going anywhere. So for those who were afraid it’d be discontinued, it seems it will be around for a while.
2. Amazon is getting ready to release the new Kindles soon, and they can use all the promotional boosts they can get. One strong plus would be having a large selection of cheaper book. Rumors are going around that Amazon will announce their next plans by the end of October, early November. I wouldn’t be surprised if Amazon lays the ground for their next major announcement.

Now a lot of these new titles are magazine and blogs, but you can almost sense the speedy fashion that Amazon has been bringing books to the Kindle platform. The books that I wanted to buy a few months ago but were not available for the Kindle are now all available for the platform. In addition, many new books come in the Kindle edition as well. Let’s hope Amazon continues this trend to fulfil Jeff Bezos’ original dream for Kindle (digitizing all books in the world).

• Kindle can’t kill the good old paper book — right?: Talking about how Amazon Kindle can change or not change the way people read on an everyday basis. At least these guys give Kindle a chance unlike our friends at CNET.
• Amazon’s Kindle a double-edged sword for newspapers. Very interesting article about how Amazon Kindle can bring the heaven and hell for newspapers.
• 2nd look for Kindle, MacBook Air, Drobo. This is a very interesting review of the hottest gadgets on the net. There is nothing hotter than Kindle, Macbook Air, and Drobo right now, so it’s appropriate that these are lined up together.