kindle's daily fail

I'm always looking for a deal, so imagine my surprise when a friend told me about all the great deals available on the 'kindle daily post'.

So I searched:




But, no 'kindle daily post'.

Its right there my friend insisted, just off the main screen.

Screen?

That's right, the 'kindle daily post' is only available through wireless. First you go to the home screen, then hit menu, then shop in kindle store, and it's right there.

Simple.


Like many kindle users, I generally leave the wireless on my kindle off.

In fact here is how I use my kindle:

1. purchase a book from amazon.com
2. turn on wireless, wait for book to download
   
3. turn off wireless
4. read

I don't purchase stuff through the kindle. I'm in front of a computer all day, and if I think "I should get this book", I go to amazon.com and get it. If I ran out of books on the road I would have loaded the store, but I usually have 3 books I want to read, and another 4 that I should be reading. That is to say, I would not have found it.

To make this even more frustrating, the deals from the daily kindle post are available on the website



But you loose the context of the offer - in this case that Random House is making the book free until May 31st as a promotion. You just see that it's free. Since it's not advertised as free on the website, you'll only notice if you look up the book to purchase it.

In other words, if you use kindle's wireless you might download the book because of the promotion, if you use amazon.com you get a book you were going to pay for for free, and you won't know why.

All in all, not well thought out.

kindle fail!