[ajaypopat]

The price point is way too high for mainstream usage in India. The actual price in India is $435 ($289 base price, $42 for shipping, and $104 for import duty!!).

I wonder if there will be a hack to buy a US Kindle and then use it locally here in India.

[rbanffy]

It would be a lot smarter to unbundle it from the unlimited wireless connectivity forever plan. The device would be cheaper and users could decide how much (or how little) they want to spend on connectivity. I also bet slashing the cost of the perpetual wireless could allow Amazon to include wifi, making moot my whole point here.

[plinkplonk]

whoa 104$ import duty! That's half the price of the device. Bleh. I take back my "will be hit" prediction. This will be a miserable failure (in India). But they are probably not targeting India at all I guess. Possibly Europe or Japan?