Others have clearly noticed that the education market is a clear area for
promoting tablet growth, like Amazon, which recently added to the existing appeal of its bargain - basement Kindle Fire pricing (a souped up version of last year's model retails for $ 159) with a new free Whispercast mobile device management platform that lets schools easily deploy updates and content to a whole fleet of Kindle hardware, with support for Kindle Fire Android software coming soon.
iSupply recently did a study on e-readers and
tablets in the market and had this to say: «The strong
growth this year arises from a relentless marketing push and attractive pricing by ebook reader brands in order to
promote sales of the devices.