Amazon announces $3 ebooks: if you bought the dead tree edition from them

[thewayne]

About bloody time. I hope Barnes & Noble follows suite. I prefer, for a variety of reasons, B&N ebooks and their Nook over Amazon's format and the Kindles. My problem is that I have an old Nook tablet, theoretically I can root it and it will run a version of Android, but I don't know if it'll be a late enough version to access Google's Play store and the Kindle app. B&N is going to be announcing two new Nooks soon, so I may need to buy a new tablet in the not distant future.

http://www.pcpro.co.uk/news/383932/amazon-kindle-matchbook-bundles-ebooks-with-print-purchases

Comments

[droewyn.livejournal.com]

As I recall, right now it's only for Harper Collins books, but if it's successful hopefully the rest of the Big Six will jump on board.

I wish B&N would work on a lot of things. I wind up buying ebooks more from Amazon lately, because their regular prices tend to be significantly cheaper, and they have four daily deals -- three genre specific -- instead of one that's usually Oprah Book Club-by. Free Fridays is nice in theory, but in practice the ratio of "wow, that was really great! Let's see what else this author has done" to "I want those six hours of my life back" is depressingly low.

I want coupons and the discount membership to apply to ebooks, dammit.

[silveradept]

There is a version of Android up to 4.2 for all the rootable tablets. Probably soon a 4.3 version, once everything gets sorted out. Stupidly enough, they often have issues with the nook app.