The homepage of Amazon has a surprise free gift for Kindle Fire owners on Monday.
"If you own a Kindle Fire," reads the front page of Amazon.com, "you'll find a little unexpected something in your account right now — 500 Amazon Coins, worth $5. You can use the coins to buy apps and games, as well as items inside apps and games. And if you want to purchase additional coins for yourself or your family, you get to do so at a discount."
This Internet Deals reporter scoured the rules to see if we can use that free $5 to buy Kindle books, but alas, it appears this deal is only for buying apps, like Cut the Rope: Time Travel HD or Scribblenauts Remix and such.
So this writer will pass this free 5 bucks deal on to her kids, unlike the times I use my free monthly Kindle Prime Kindle Owner's Lending Library (KOLL) to borrow a free Kindle book and read it on their Kindle Fire devices.
Read more rules about the newly announced deal from Amazon:
Every Kindle Fire owner in the U.S. will find $5 worth of free Coins deposited directly into their Amazon account
Customers can also purchase Coins in bulk and receive a discount up to 10%
Tens of millions of dollars worth of Amazon Coins are now in customers’ accounts to spend on developers’ apps
“Today we are giving Kindle Fire owners $5 worth of Coins to spend on new apps and games, or to purchase in-app items, such as recipes in iCookbook, song collections in SongPop or mighty falcon bundles in Angry Birds Star Wars. And with discounts of up to 10% when you buy Coins, this is a great way for customers to save money when they buy apps, games and in-app items,” said Mike George, Vice President of Apps and Games at Amazon. “We will continue to add more ways to earn and spend Coins on a wider range of content and activities—today is Day One for Coins.”
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