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Originally Posted by kaufman
This might be a reasonable argument if they weren't also selling a $80 model and a $120 model. They haven't raised the price on the same level of book reader. They have added a premium model. Probably because they learned from Kobo that there was a market for them.
All of you people complaining about the $200 price and predicting doom and gloom for Amazon because "no one will spend that much for a book reader", should probably read up a little on the history of the Kindle.
The first model was $400, and Amazon sold so many of them that it was backordered for about 6 months because they couldn't make them fast enough to keep up with demand. The next one was $300, and they sold a ton of those as well. And this was back before everything was available for the device.
They are almost certainly going to sell more paperwhites and basic models than the Voyage, but it looks like they are going to sell a lot of those as well.
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Couldn't agree more. Look at the current wait times for all 4 models of the Voyage. That reader is in very high demand at all price levels.
Dean