Thread: Rumor: Sony Reader, Amazon Kindle Coming to the UK soon
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Old 02-17-2008, 01:08 PM   #4
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Originally Posted by Lexicon View Post
Listing the price of the readers as "about £200" hurts the credibility of the author too.

Bitter experience tells us that any technology that makes it to the UK is almost always priced as if the USD:GBP exchange rate were 1:1. That means that if the devices are indeed released here we can expect the Sony Reader to be priced at £299 and the Kindle at £399.

Also, if we do see the Kindle over here I'd be very surprised if we get free network access thrown in for the life of the device. We might get a years worth of free ebook downloads, if we're lucky.
Not all readers that reach the UK are priced like that. See Bookeen's Cybook Gen3, sold online for £245 to UK customers, and €350 to other UE countries.
http://www.bookeen.com/shop/ebook-shop.aspx
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