Comments on: A Cheap(er) Kindle

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.

By: Anne Louise Bannon

Anne Louise Bannon — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 20:31:38 +0000

My price point? Somewhere between $50 and $100 – cheap enough that a relative might buy it as a gift. Or that I won’t feel guilty for indulging myself.

By: Jake Richter

Jake Richter — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 20:10:56 +0000

I love my Kindle DX. I ended up handing my regular Kindle 2 down to my wife (who now alternates between that and her Sony Reader with the touch screen). The DX is definitely not cheap, but being able to read PDFs as well as see books full page is nice. I can actual read patent PDFs on the DX (and have done so for work).