Thursday, July 1, 2010

Amazon's Gift To Woot Customers: Cheap Kindles

Amazon.com has handed its first gift to customers of daily deals site Woot: a great deal on the Amazon Kindle. This morning, Woot's deal of the day was an Amazon Kindle, on sale for $149.99 plus $5 in shipping--well below the usual price on the Kindle of $189. According to Woot, the deal sold out by 8:20 A.M. Central Time, after Woot sold 4,968 of the device. Woot announced it was acquired by Amazon--which was also the firm's major investor--on Wednesday.