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Originally Posted by DiapDealer
We've been here before. I don't think Touch alone is enough to warrant a new generation. Without some sort of screen/contrast improvement, I just don't see it happening. They're not going to bother "matching" the new Nook... I think they'll wait until they have something that surpasses the new Nook. Either way, I think the tablet will have their focus for the coming Christmas season.
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It may be for longer time than the coming Christmas season. it would make sense to simply "cash-in" the Kindle branding, as it is
VERY successful, and to sway their loyal Kindle customers to buy more Amazon products than just e-books; become a one-stop shop. If the Cnet Article that I linked to previously is correct, Amazon will price its 7-inch tablet at 249$, which is VERY aggressive and definitely below production cost.
Obviously, Amazon seems, at least to me, to be pricing their tablets so low, that their will be no point in buying a e-reader, Kindle or other, if you can have a complete multimedia solution for 120-150 dollars more. To take a leaf out of Apple's book, in 2007, they had to price the Iphone 200$ more than the Ipod, because if the gap was too low, people would have ignored buying an Ipod and just go with the Iphone (Apple makes more profit by unit on a Ipod than Iphone).
I believe the new prices on the Kindle (99$ refurbished, KSO 114$) tells me that they WILL continue on making Kindles, as the demand is there but they will not release a new model, they simply want to introduce a nice price gap between the tablet and the Kindle. Human nature tell us that the average consumer DO NOT Buy a product based on specs and stats but by comparing an item to another based on quality/price, as shown in the store: the higher the price, the higher the quality. They can attract customers that were on the fence about buying an e-reader (Hey it is just a hundred bucks now!) and once the enjoy the experience, sway them to the Tablet with all the Cloud Computing Services, the future, in my mind and many others on digital distribution for Copyrighted works.