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.
Not exact matches
But when I
see that the
kindle price is $ 12 and the hardback is $ 10 - 11, that doesn't make me go «hey I guess I'll get the hardback instead» even though I have Amazon Prime and could get it shipped free.
I just
saw kindle dx
price it's reduced to 239 dollars.
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 $
He just plots out the sliding
price of the Kindle and suggests we could
see free
Kindles by November.
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.
The future with an enforced «everybody selling at our selected
price» future means Amazon and B&N sell less
Kindles and Nooks because the book lovers are going to
see the discounted HC at $ 18 and compare that to an eBook at $ 15 (plus cost of device) and deem it not worth buying a Kindle or Nook edition with its limitations.
Theyh have to he careful to
see what the
price people are willing to buy for now that the
kindle fire for 200 dollars is coming in november they got to be smart about it
With the Kindle 2 in 2009 it tried $ 189 to $ 219 — perhaps in 2010 it wants to try $ 139 to $ 189 for refurbished
kindles and
see how users react to different
prices.
Considering the race to the bottom on eReader
pricing going on right now, it may not be long before we start
seeing Kindles and Nooks and even Sony Readers getting as close as possible to $ 100.
Of course, when you follow that to the
kindle page, you
see that isn't the pre-order
price.
Barnes & Noble sells a e-ink reader, the Nook Glowlight, which didn't
see an update in 2014 even as Amazon's line of e-ink
Kindles received
price cuts and upgrades and a new high - end model.
The program will
see Amazon offering bookstores the chance to sell
Kindles (which they buy wholesale at between 6 % and 9 % discount from the Manufacturer Suggested Retail
Price, Amazon says), and to share in some of the benefits of doing so — for a limited time, at least.
I do have to say, I've
seen an increase in sales of my two other books, Temptation to Sin and State of Ecstasy, but then again, I reduced the
prices of all my
kindle books by $ 2.00.
In the meantime we have
seen refurbished
Kindles going for close to $ 100, a major
price drop on new
Kindles, and a huge push in the Kindle platform across multiple platforms.
Amazon is offering a number of revolving sales throughout the month, but it is unclear whether the
Kindles will
see another pre-holiday
price drop after this.