Not exact matches
Amazon currently controls ~ 90 % of the e-book market, has the largest e-book library, the
best author search and discovery tools, the most e-book readers / buyers, the
best e-book
pricing, and the leading e-book applications and hardware with the
kindle,
kindle touch, and
kindle fire HD.
I have held the line at $ 9.99 since there is so much
good stuff out there at that
price point or less, but I resent having to pay more than paper at any time for an ebook, and I don't want to read paper when I have my
kindle.
Not true at all, you can buy the amazon books which usually have the
best price, but if you want to buy them somewhere else (ibooks or even kobostore) or get them for free on project gutenberg or any other source all you have to do is to load them on an app called calibre (available for mac, linux and windows) which will automatically convert the books into the more appropriate format and send them by email to amazon cloud which will make them appear almost imediatly in your
kindle.
Sony's PDF machine is a great try, hobbled by low res and high
price, with barely
good enough rendering even for PDF... I got so excited initially, until i did the math and seen the demos: simple PDF's, no zoomable fonts like a normal
kindle page (sent from a WWW with Alt - k), no backlight, no apps and no Miracast... for 1K $
Toss in Amazon's customer service, store,
better prices and a few wild - cards like apps for the
Kindles and the company should hold its own against the iPad.
The Nexus if for android purists and people who want the
best specs for the
price, while the amazon
kindle fire HD is for people who want to jump right into a cradled ecosystem.
You have the
best shot at
KINDLE sales, yet your
Kindle book isn't
priced to sell, it's $ 8.99, that is WAY too high.
The initial information on the contract, which did not include any opportunities for rival e-reader supplies to step up and offer their own devices at a
better rate, has been updated in the past hour to reflect some changes to what was originally thought to only be 2,500
Kindles for that
price.
Six years ago there weren't nearly as many options, and now
Kindles aren't as
good for audio as some other devices because of the smaller battery, limited storage, and higher
price, but that still hasn't stopped people from wanting audio support brought back to
Kindles.
Overall, it provides three very
good price points for various new and refurbished
kindles — $ 189, $ 219, and $ 259.
Nov 29th update — The $ 327 Refurbished
Kindle is having an impact — someone is now selling a used
kindle for $ 429 (much
better than the earlier $ 700 +
prices).
Well, perhaps a lower
priced Kindle, perhaps newer
Kindles (Kindle 3, Kindle 4, Kindle DX 2), and perhaps completely new additions to the Kindle family.
But,
well, everyone else on my side of the extended family had
Kindles, and there were so many more deals and lower
prices on the books I wanted to read.
Or at least, low
price seems a frequent feature of
kindle books at the top of the
best seller lists.
The printed version can also create a nice
price anchor to help your
kindle version look like a
better deal.
It set whatever
price it thought
best for its overall business, even if that meant losing money on an individual title in order to boost traffic or sell more
Kindles.
The conclusion of the commercial below is that for the
price of a single iPad one would be able to buy three
Kindles: two Kindle Fire devices for $ 199 each plus a Kindle for $ 79 (which is advertised to offer the
best way to read in bright sunlight).
While the addition of cover art to the home screen seems like a welcome change and an easier way to browse books, Amazon does place a strip of «Suggested Books» or «Bestselling Books» at the bottom of the display — and this is in addition to the «Special Offers» below that if you opted for the cheaper model — which shows that Amazon is selling
Kindles and Kindle Fires at very aggressive
prices partially in the hopes that users will buy lots of stuff from their excellent and expanding content ecosystem, including Kindle Books and newspapers, as
well as videos and songs and apps for the Kindle Fire.
I can not fault this and it is far
better than the leather cover for the
kindle keyboard at the same
price.