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Originally Posted by X read X
My guess on the price is $119.95. If you really think about it eBook readers can only get so cheep, the screens and the internals cost $$ form a somewhat regulated market. So the price would have to be competitive and still profitable.
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All true.
Looking at the internals of ebook readers it seems everything in them, except the screen, is essentially cell-phone tech. So, once the market matures (not now, not soon) we could expect low-end reader pricing to follow low-end cellphone price curves, with an added cost for the screen. With that as a guideline I'd say the pricing floor looks to be in the $49-79 range. But at that point, sales would have to run into the tens of millions worldwide to get screen costs low enough.
And that's not happening just yet.