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Originally Posted by mersfire
I'm always amazed at what great marketing can do for a company. Amazon is touting $79 for Kindle, $99 for Kindle Touch (both with special offers) and $199 for Kindle Fire (8GB).
The Nook Simple Touch sells for $99 now (without ads, but does anyone care?) and the Tablet sells for $249 (16GB).
Am I the only one that sees this as being exactly the SAME pricing for their products? If I wanted an 8GB tablet, I'lll pay $199 for the Fire and if I need 16GB, I'll pay $50 more for the Tablet.
But all I read about is how the Kindle is now $79 (no touch) vs $99 for the Nook and how $199 is $50 less than $249 even though B&N gives us 8GB more internal storage PLUS and expansion slot.
Maybe B&N just needs to join the marketing game and offer some bare bones, stripped down products to compete for the mind-share of bloggers/analysts/reporters. I don't like it as a consumer, but from what I constantly read online and in the papers, it sure seems like the rest of us only focus on the lowest price offering a company has.
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Well said, you've hit it on the head.