Slimmer, cheaper Amazon Kindle comes to the UK with internet access from just £109!

This looks awesome.

It's wafer thin, has a battery life of a month and can store 3,500 books - and you can sync books to your handset.

Eme's already registered her interest!





http://www.wirefresh.com/slimmer-cheaper-amazon-kindle-comes-to-the-uk-with-built-in-wi-fi3g

*typo corrected)

Yes, that's explained in the link. I'll change the title to "from" £109.

Either way it looks great value and should do well. It's really small and light has a good screen, you can download books on the move, has internet access and millions of free and paid books, with a one month battery life If I travelled/commuted a lot I'd definitely look at getting one.

Read the OP and thought, "3,500 pages"? That's not much... 3-4 big books.
It's actually 3,500 books, which is a lot better.

Looks nice, long battery life for holidays etc too.

Not sure what you mean as it's no different to reading a mag or a small paperback. I love the fact that it's so thin and light.

As for prices:

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Wireless-Reading-Display-Graphite-Globally/dp/B002LVUWFE/

The iPad's great at a lot of stuff, the Kindle is much better as an eReader and it's much lighter and much cheaper too. The fact that you can use the 3G connection anywhere in the world makes it a very tempting purchase too.

Fuck, it's that cheap, I might just crack some time soon!

Books are great, but for £100 you can carry around as many books as you could ever read in a lifetime in something that weighs less than a paperback. Add in a vast library of free books, internet access, web pages, blogs, PDFs, etc and you've got yourself an incredibly versatile gizmo.

Err, that's because the company selling the books were found not to have the legal right to do so, and all customers were refunded with the option to download it again from another publisher.

This looks like a good design and that is definitely a terrific price - that's less than what generic e-readers have been selling for.

The commercial e-book market is still awful though. They're still in the mindset that the music companies used to be in. You can get quite a few new publications but they are still vastly overpriced for what they are. I was looking at getting China Mieville's Kraken on the iPad - it's £12 on iBooks and slightly cheaper but not much on Kindle (you can read Kindle books on iPad/iPhone btw). I could, and did, get the hardback from Amazon for less than that, which is DRM free and I can lend to people or sell on or give away, as opposed to simply having a licence to read something on one particular platform that's going to be useless in five years' time.

The tech is all about the public domain books and small/indie publishers (who charge reasonable prices) for me. If you want to publish a magazine of new writing, you can do it electronically, and people can read it on their phones or Kindles or computers without platform issues if you don't DRM it all.

I think this could well be the first mass market eReader. The pricing is spot on and the ability to subscribe to UK magazines and newspapers is interesting too.

Amazon are pitching it just right as well:

The fact that you can use the 3G when you're abroad is genius.

I suspect a few people mulling over the iPad and are going to think twice about shelling out £400 when they can get one of these for nearly a quarter of the price.

They need to move the price of the Kindle way out of the range of the iPad to have it succeed - which is what they've done here, sensibly. What you need to do is have it seen as a different level of purchase, so that people don't compare the two. Any reader priced near iPad price, people are going to say "well I can read books on the iPad and it also does all this other stuff" - in general, while it might be nicer to read books on e-paper type devices, people are happy enough in practice reading books on their phones, let alone larger conventional screens.