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In what can only be seen as a move to compete with the Barnes & Noble Nook, especially considering the international edition Kindle was only announced less than a month ago—Amazon has made some changes to the current Kindle lineup.

Good news! Due to strong customer demand for our newest Kindle with U.S. and international wireless, we are consolidating our family of 6” Kindles. As part of this consolidation, we are lowering the price of the Kindle you just purchased from $279 down to $259. You don’t need to do anything to get the lower price—we are automatically issuing you a $20 refund. This refund should be processed in the next few days and will appear as a credit on your next billing statement.

It seems that they have consolidated the Kindle lineup, well in short they have ditched the $259 US only version in favor of the US and International version.  The good news here is that Amazon has also lowered the price on that model from the original $279 down to $259.  In other words it is now priced the same as the Nook.

In addition, anyone who has purchased the US and International version for the original $279 price tag will be getting a $20 refund.  And the better news here is that refund will be automatic.  According to Amazon, anyone that falls into that category should see the refund come in the “next few days.”

Personally, I am still sporting the original Kindle, but have been dreaming about the Nook since it was announced the other day.  I am thinking a trip to a local Barnes & Noble may be in order.  But that said, I will most keep my original Kindle until either Barnes & Noble or Amazon release an ebook reader for Android.

Product [Amazon]  Via [Engadget]