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New eReader price wars

So what happens when Apple’s $500 iPad sells like mad?  Well a price war of course between the Nook and Amazon’s Kindle.

nookkindleIt appears that Apple has produced a product that consumers have been wanting and are willing to pay quite a premium.  But at the same time Apple has cut into Amazon’s ownership of eBook sales.  The problem with both of the above devices – they are not color.  Think about purchasing a dedicated eReader that cannot produce color, and is only available for, well….reading….despite Amazon’s attempts to open the Kindle platform with an API and goals of an iTunes-like store.

Amazon left their newer Kindle DX at $500.00

Tags: iPad, Kindle, Nook, price war, ebook sales, reading, trends

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The new $500 Kindle DX

With a bit of hype and fanfare Amazon.com launched a bigger Kindle DX today.  The new ebook reader has a price point of $500 and supports native PDF files and bigger screen that rotates.  Cool.  The announcement however is not showing up at CNN.com or the NYTimes websites.  Digg had it posted 1.5 hours ago.

Kindle DX
Kindle DX


Tags: Amazon, Kindle, eBook, Globalization, reading, community, trends