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Originally Posted by robko
And on another note: In my opinion it wasn't the Nook or IPad that caused the price to drop - the Kobo at $149 caused the original drop in prices for all the readers which then caused Kindle to follow suit.
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I would have to agree, though the Kindle was becoming competitively priced to Australians before the Kobo was released. The main advantage was that Kobo was available for hands on investigation and the Kindle was not.
Once the Kobo began to carve a market share, prices began to fall further.