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Originally Posted by John F
I guess I'm missing your point. It looks like Kindles were the cheapest (according to your post). I tried to find your NY times article, but it wanted me to create an account; what was your take away from the article.
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When the Kobo ereader was released in May 2010 for $149, the equivalent Amazon 6" Kindle ereaders were priced at $299 for the K2 and $279 for the K2i. Perhaps you want to cling to the belief that without the introduction of the Kobo ereader, Amazon would still have dropped the price of the Kindle 3 introduced in July, 2010 to $139 for the WiFi only model or $189 for the 3G model.
According to several items at the time, the original pricing for the K3 WiFi was going to be $299 so I find it hard to believe that Amazon out of the kindness of Jeff Bezos's heart would have decided to drop the price to below that of the Kobo ereader if the Kobo ereader had not been introduced. Oddly during that same time period in July, 2010 B&N dropped the price of the original Nook (the one with the eInk & LCD screens) from $259 to $149 though that did involve losing the 3G capability.
As the NYT article referred to it, a price war.