The new
lower kindle price got me interested in buying a kindle 3 about three months ago.
Not exact matches
Yet your minimum
pricing and delivery fee would be based on the size of the file sent to
lower - resolution
Kindles — about 1.4 MB!
For one thing as a first time author the
price is reasonably
low, on the other hand the book - at least the
kindle version is only now slowly getting noticed.
Self - publishing has not only democratized publishing, it has opened up the opportunity for authors to publish at
low or no cost, own all the rights, control the
pricing and timetable for publishing, and get their books listed for sale and distribution on major outlets and platforms — e.g. Amazon,
kindle, nook, other e-readers, Google and more.
As a result, Amazon would seem to have less room for error than Apple, and while it has plenty of high - margin products to sell in the form of accessories, the rumored mix of Kindle devices and physical books doesn't seem incredibly enticing, especially when
prices for
Kindles are so
low (that's the stuff you don't mind buying online) and only going
lower.
In a similar way, Amazon jump - started the ebook market with the Kindle and wanted to keep
prices low in order to stimulate the market — and to gain and keep control over as much of the supply chain as possible so that it could drive sales of
Kindles and related devices.
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 $
Accusations of bullying and the exercise of market power are flying against both parties: Amazon has market power as a leading book retailer, and they are bullying Macmillan by removing their print products to keep retail ebook
prices low and sell more
Kindles!
Other
Kindles are also
priced lower with ads.
The only foreseeable advantage I see, other than making us nuts (which while fun, probably doesn't help amazon's bottom dollar), is to grow more home - grown
kindle authors and to have more people buy into Author Central, thereby, in the end, making for
lower ebook
prices (which equals more units sold) and no traditional publisher middle man.
«Amazon is a Trojan Horse, offering
low prices today — while Wall Street is willing to float a company that doesn't make a profit — at the cost of destroying the [traditional] publishing ecosystem that is indispensable to authors... Amazon actually prevents competition by locking its customers in through devices like Prime and DRM, which means Amazon customers can't read books sold by Apple or Google Play on their
Kindles.»
And as many book lovers get new
Kindles, Amazon makes sure happy Kindle owners find as many great books to read as possible at
prices as
low as possible.
He feels these, along with the
low price of the Kindle WiFi and retail availability, will help Amazon sell 5 million
Kindles this year.
The
Kindles will most certainly go on sale for Prime members again this month for
lower prices than the current sale.
One thing that continues to irk me about B&N's marketing tactics is they keep repeating that there are «No Annoying Ads» — a shot at Amazon's
Kindles, which all have the option for displaying ads if you pay a
lower price.
So I don't think that
kindle will be a winner takes all if nook colour is
lowering its
price to undercut amazon.
The most likely possibility for the prior
price increase of refurbished
kindles is that the amount of demand for low - priced Kindles surprised and overwhelmed
kindles is that the amount of demand for
low -
priced Kindles surprised and overwhelmed
Kindles surprised and overwhelmed Amazon.
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.
Perhaps not terribly surprising considering it is the least expensive version, but it does seem to show that a lot of people don't mind ads on their
Kindles and will accept them in exchange for a
lower price ($ 25 off in this case).
Or at least,
low price seems a frequent feature of
kindle books at the top of the best seller lists.
Kindle 2 wins clearly on portability and this, along with its
lower price, points to two lines of
Kindles existing in parallel.
If you are concerned about saturating your market at too
low a
price, one thing that makes the Kindle Store — and the aggregate of all ebook venues — stand out right now is the rate at which the «installed base» of
Kindles is growing.
I've felt for a long time that if Amazon got their act together by offering
Kindles at a
lower price point (which hasn't happened yet, but must be on the horizon), they could easily position themselves to dominate the industry, effectively cutting out traditional publishing houses.
Amazon has also revamped the lineup of traditional e-ink
Kindles with new touch screens and sharply
lower prices.
My experience (which admittedly is just a few weeks in length) is that Amazon's
kindle program sells fewer units at
lower prices and way higher returns / refunds.
in november 2013 bought the
lowest price kindle model ($ 65) for my girlfriend.
The company first released its entry - level $ 79
kindle last year, and now that device has been updated with new fonts and crisper text at a
lower price.
Lower tier
Kindles get these adverts in exchange for a slightly cheaper
price.
There is every reason to expect that within the next year or two we will be seeing
Kindles priced so
low as to make it almost silly not to own one.
This is not a claim for the overarching superiority of the older Kindle Keyboard or even the equality of the Kindle 4 (there is a reason that it is
priced lower than all the other
Kindles).