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Anticipating the arrival of fresh competition, Amazon.com Inc. on Wednesday slashed the price of its Kindle electronic-book reader by $40 to $259
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Amazon's Kindle Ebook Reader GEts $40 Price Cut
News Type: Event — Seeded on Wed Oct 7, 2009 10:12 AM EDT
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{"commentId":9918967,"authorDomain":"sionxxii"}
Get off yer ass and go down to a used bookstore already.
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#1 - Wed Oct 7, 2009 10:29 AM EDT{"commentId":9919219,"authorDomain":"jsunshine122"}
I wonder how much longer they're going to be able to continue charging $489 for the Kindle DX.
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#2 - Wed Oct 7, 2009 10:39 AM EDT{"commentId":9922054,"authorDomain":"dojc"}
@RNoel
Yah I agree that needs at least a $100 slash in the short-run and a should be half that to really get a foothold in the mkt
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#3 - Wed Oct 7, 2009 12:34 PM EDT{"commentId":9925147,"authorDomain":"nesta12572"}
I would consider an ebook reader if they would bring the price down to around $200. I have a really good quality HP laptop that cost me around $700, and an Asus EEE mini, with a 160GB harddrive and windows XP for less than $400. I can download ebooks from a variety of locations, including Sony's ebook store and the Asus isn't much bigger than the kindle readers. I can't see buying the DX for nearly $500 when the Asus is more than $100 less, especially when the kindle books are propietary. Not to mention magazine and newspapers through kindle require a subscription when I can read them online for the low price of seeing a few ads on the page.
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