Could the Kindle be free by the end of the year?

By Chris Meadows

Could Amazon be offering the Kindle free by the end of the year? Kevin Kelly, former editor of Wired, thinks so. He points out that an analyst charted the decreases in the Kindle’s price over the last two years and projected that it could be marked down to nothing by November of this year.

Kelly thought that Amazon might operate on a cell phone model where you get a free Kindle if you commit to buy X number of e-books (funny, I would have called that the book club model instead), then he noticed that Michael Arrington once brought up the idea (we covered it at the time) that Amazon Prime subscribers might get a free Kindle.

Full piece at Teleread.