It’s hard to believe but it’s been almost a month since last posting a sales and deals article.
So I scoured the web for a bunch of current sales and best deals for tablets and ereaders I could find and listed them all below. This time the list is broken up into new items and refurbished devices.
But first, Amazon is giving away a really cool $10 app today for free in honor of John James Audubon’s 227th birthday called Audubon Birds: A Field Guide to North American Birds. If you like bird watching it is definitely worth getting.
Now for the sales and deals…
New eReader and Tablet Deals
$99 Kobo Touch – This is the Mother’s Day bundle that includes a Kobo Touch and a gel skin case, which together normally cost $145.
$79 Kobo Touch with Offers – This is the Kobo Touch with advertisements on the screensaver.
$79 Kindle 4 with $30 Gift Card – WalMart’s April 29th flyer was leaked earlier in the month and it shows a deal for the non-touch Kindle 4 with special offers (ads) that comes with a $30 WalMart gift card, essentially making the Kindle 4 just $49.
$30 Off Nook Tablet at B&N – You can get $30 of either the 8GB Nook Tablet, making it $169, or the 16GB Nook Tablet, making it $219, when you purchase any two digital graphic novels from the Avengers Collection, which range in price from $6.99 to $14.99.
$599 3G Apple iPad 2 32GB – Daily Steals has the 3G iPad 2 on sale today only. That’s $130 less than the equivalent iPad 3 model (the upgrade is worth it, but to each their own).
$99 Polaroid 7″ Android 4.0 Tablet – This is about $50 less than other stores are selling it for right now. The deal ends Saturday the 28th and is an in-store only deal at Big Lots.
Sony PRS-T1 with Harry Potter eBook – Sony is running a Harry Potter bundle deal where they are giving away a free download voucher for Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone with the purchase of the PRS-T1 ebook reader for $129. Since the ebook only costs $7.99 that’s not really a very good deal.
Refurbished eReader and Tablet Deals
$59 Nook Touch – Barnes and Noble has the Nook Touch on sale again via their eBay store. This is about as good as it gets for a touchscreen E Ink ebook reader at this price.
$169 Kindle Fire – It’s not as good as the $139 deal a few weeks back but is still one of the best deals for a tablet at that price.
$199 Nook Tablet – Barnes and Noble offers the 16GB Nook Tablet for $50 off when buying refurbished.
$135 Nook Color – Barnes and Noble still has plenty of refurbished Nook Colors on eBay.
$189 Acer Iconia 7″ Android Tablet – This is a really good tablet except for the 4-5 hour battery life.
$289 Acer Iconia 10″ Android Tablet – This is the 16GB Acer Iconia A200 tablet with a 10″ screen. New it sells for about $339.
$150 Sony Reader PRS-900 – Taking it back a couple of generations, Sony’s old school Daily Edition can be had from Geeks.com for $250 less than it originally sold for back in the day.
You don’t have to go through ebay to get the $135 Nook Color. It’s also on the BN website, though somewhat hidden. http://www.barnesandnoble.com/p/cert-pre-owned-nook-color-barnes-noble/1100666155
Sony is running a special on the Tablet S in celebration of the Ice Cream Sandwich update:
$50 off the 16G and 32G tablets, plus a free cradle through May 12, 2012.
http://store.sony.com/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/ProductDisplay?catalogId=10551&storeId=10151&langId=-1&productId=8198552921666369301
I don’t know which e-ink ereader available for countries in Southeast Asia region. I have been waiting for Nook or Kindle available, but in vain. I wish to buy BeBook, but they are very difficult to get. Could you advice any ereader for us and where can we get them online?
I’m not really familiar with places to buy in Southeast Asia. Amazon does ship the Kindle to a lot of Asian countries, it just depends which one. BeBook has gone bankrupt, last I heard. There are a lot of options out of China and Korea with the likes of iriver and Hanvon.