Amazon Kindle drops price to $259, joins the iPhone on AT&T's International network

Seth Weintraub
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October 06, 2009
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Amazon announced today that they were going to have an International version of the Kindle for sale for the holiday season.  Until now the Kindle has used Sprint's EVDO network to get purchases and updates from the Internet.  Unfortunately for current Kindle owners, Sprint's radio technology doesn't work overseas.

Enter AT&T and its global standard HSDPA network.  Amazon has worked out a similar deal with AT&T as it did with Sprint, except on the AT&T version, you can roam in 100 countries with your Kindle.  You can even buy the new Kindle internationally for use with US books.

Amazon is dropping the price of its Sprint Kindle significantly to $259 (or $219 refurb) and is available immediately.  The AT&T International version will be $279 for pre-order and will ship later this month (October 19th-ish)

 

Comments (3)

Blog Kindle (not verified) | October 07, 2009 - 12:15am

I've put together a table that lists every country in which Kindle is available along with number of books, their pricing, wireless availability etc at http://blogkindle.com/2009/10/international-release-of-kindle-2/

pando (not verified) | October 17, 2009 - 12:16pm

Amazon is pre-ordering the Kindle 2 International version for $279. The Kindle 2 US version is available new for $259 or refurbished from $219.

pando (not verified) | October 27, 2009 - 4:17pm

Update: Amazon’s Kindle 2 gets a new $20 price cut, now you can buy it for $259.