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Originally Posted by khalleron
So, the cheapest one has no touch screen, no wifi and no 3g, correct?
It's just a basic reader - much like the early Sonys - only with advertising and made from plastic.
Nice of Amazon to hit all the price points - and I'm sincere about that - but it might now kill all those 'Kindle is better than everything in every way' arguments.
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It has been a long time since I have argued that.
The way I see it now is that the only major factors that differentiate a Kindle from a Nook/Kobo/Sony is the format and the memory card slot.
Most people don't care about the format, the people posting at sites like this are the exception to the rule. Most people are not going to care about the memory card slot because most people know that storing 3,500 books is more then enough.
The fact that there are two Kindles below the $100 price point is huge. That is what is going to hurt Nook/Sony/Kobo. Unless BN is getting ready to announce a huge price cut on its models or put out that bare bones reader, Kindle is going to regain any momentum that it has lost in the last year.
Honestly, the readers all have the same features and look pretty similar. The price is what differentiates them now.