Kindles and Nooks dead?
07/08/10 11:15 Filed in: ebooks
Dedicated E-Readers Will Be Dead in a Year, If Not
Sooner
Amazon and Barnes & Noble may have started a price war, but it's pointless: Dedicated e-readers will be dead within a year.
Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols, ITworld
Jun 21, 2010 3:22 pm
Barnes & Noble just launched a new Wi-Fi only version of the Nook for $149 and cut the price of the original, with both Wi-Fi and 3G from $259 to $199. Whoops! And, what's this? I no sooner finish this blog and Amazon drops the bottom-line Kindle's price to $189. That's great, right? Wrong. It's actually just postponing the end of all dedicated e-readers.
Read more at PCworld
Amazon and Barnes & Noble may have started a price war, but it's pointless: Dedicated e-readers will be dead within a year.
Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols, ITworld
Jun 21, 2010 3:22 pm
Barnes & Noble just launched a new Wi-Fi only version of the Nook for $149 and cut the price of the original, with both Wi-Fi and 3G from $259 to $199. Whoops! And, what's this? I no sooner finish this blog and Amazon drops the bottom-line Kindle's price to $189. That's great, right? Wrong. It's actually just postponing the end of all dedicated e-readers.
Read more at PCworld