Comments on: A Cheap(er) Kindle

By: Alexander Hope

Alexander Hope — Thu, 19 May 2011 03:14:31 +0000

I love the kindle, but stanley is right the I pad is taking over the market, to bad my kindle is my favorite but the ipad has so much more to offer.....unfortunate Regards Alex www.comparisonereaders.com

By: Stanley

Stanley — Tue, 18 May 2010 11:59:25 +0000

In light of release of Apple iPad and its cheapest at price of $499. Looking back to amazon.com’s Kindle DX, Oh man, $489 for that thing! Amazon really need to wake up to the reality that ripping people off just isn’t that easy anymore.

By: Kindle Gets Cheaper, Travels Internationally | Technologizer

Kindle Gets Cheaper, Travels Internationally | Technologizer — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 06:58:59 +0000

[...] all: News Haven’t bought a Kindle 2 yet? Good. Amazon.com, which knocked the price of its e-book reader down by $60 only last July, has cut it by another forty bucks. You can now buy one for $259–and while [...]

By: asus eee pc

asus eee pc — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 06:14:26 +0000

Its prices will be great if it come down

By: P Smith

P Smith — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 15:41:24 +0000

I can use my PDA for things other than reading books. Who would want a single purpose device nowadays except for a high-quality digital camera?

Add to that the recent renaming of the “kindle” to the _Swindle_ after Amazon screwed over its users, I definitely will never buy one.

By: Behind Amazon’s Kindle price drop | csmonitor.com

Behind Amazon’s Kindle price drop | csmonitor.com — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 20:08:07 +0000

[...] McCracken over at Technologizer touches on the mythical price that lulls the masses into buying: “I’m not sure if there’s [...]

By: steve

steve — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 04:17:11 +0000

Nice, but it’s still too expensive — $150 would be reasonable to me after using one for a few weeks.

By: Evan

Evan — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 02:17:59 +0000

Somewhere between $100 and $200 MIGHT do it for me, but I’m really waiting for products like this to advance a bit, so they include color and more functionality.

By: Matt

Matt — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 21:53:51 +0000

I’d jump on board at $50.00 TOTAL.. Too expensive for something that still appears to be in gadget phase for the average person. If I was a college student, I might go up to $299.00 ONLY if I could shave 20 % off textbook costs. I have a great public library where I live, so I generally shave 100% off the cost of reading.

By: Vulpine

Vulpine — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 20:41:45 +0000

Kindle: $59–no more; Books: $5–no more. Why should we have to pay more for an e-edition that requires no physical media (except maybe a tiny 50-cent chip.)

Yes, I know; the big, commercial publishers claim they only make about $3 off of each hardbound edition sold. If that’s so, does that mean they’re losing $14 on every paperback? I don’t think so. I don’t deny costs have gone up to over 10x what things cost back in 1960, but that still should put books at $5/copy for paper, not $9 or $10. For all the e-books I’ve purchased so far, I have yet to pay more than $5 for any one, including new publications. Most of my fiction I’ve obtained free from the Gutenberg Project and other legal sources.