http://discuss.slashgear.com/topic/amazon-will-replace-kindle-2-screens-for-free Discuss Gadgets! en-US Fri, 04 Dec 2009 07:06:50 +0000 http://bbpress.org/?v=1.0.2 q http://discuss.slashgear.com/search.php http://discuss.slashgear.com/topic/amazon-will-replace-kindle-2-screens-for-free#post-183 Thu, 16 Jul 2009 17:48:46 +0000 Brenda Stokes 183@http://discuss.slashgear.com/ <blockquote><p><img class="alignright size-full wp-image-49613" src="http://www.slashgear.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/07/kindlecrackintro.jpg" alt="kindlecrackintro" width="252" height="188" title="" />As you&#8217;ve probably heard by now, <a href="http://www.slashgear.com/tags/amazon/" target="_blank">Amazon</a> has come under fire recently for the screens on the <a href="http://www.slashgear.com/tags/kindle-2/" target="_blank">Kindle 2</a>. Apparently, they&#8217;ve been cracking left and right and Amazon was requiring people to pay a $200 replacement fee to have them fixed.</p> <p>But a $5 million class action lawsuit brought up yesterday against the company seems to have done the trick, as Amazon has <a href="http://www.tgdaily.com/content/view/43271/118/" target="_blank">just announced</a> they&#8217;ll be repairing Kindle 2 models for free. Well, replacing is more the right word.</p> <p>The Amazon Kindle 2 currently costs $299, so a $200 replacement fee was rather outlandish, especially for what seems to be a design flaw&#8211;not carelessness by Kindle owners. But it looks like everything is solved now.</p></blockquote> <p><br/><a href="http://www.slashgear.com/amazon-will-replace-kindle-2-screens-for-free-1649614/">Amazon will replace Kindle 2 screens for free</a></p>