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Originally Posted by poohbear_nc
Was just at the Amazon website - no K1's currently available, refurbished K2's still available for $219. I guess folks really snapped them up at $149.
I predict (IMHO) if Amazon offered a lot of refurbished K1's at $99 and refurbished K2's at $199 - there would be little/no market left for the Sony Daily Reader launch in December. As noted in numerous posts, if the price is low enough and the quality high enough, the absence of some features no longer stops the purchase.
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Originally Posted by Crowl
No real need for them to do that if they are selling well at the higher prices though, looking at the way the k2 price has varied that might have been them trying to set as high a price as possible while still keeping the rate of sales high enough.
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See the quote I included from
poohbear which explains what I would have thought is implied in my comments. Additionally the lower price point would put ebooks closer to affordable for say a FAMILY of four at $99/reader rather than $200-$400+/device...I said this when the original K1 price was announced, a family of four can in no way afford reading devices for everyone at $400/device. At $99/reader that is far more realistic. Even at $149/device it can be difficult for a lot of families. At $99 I would not hesitate buying gifts for friends, even if it is a K1...at $149 I will not.
A higher market saturation of devices makes it very difficult for publishers to justify refusal to publish ebook versions. Even the usual subjects would be backed into a corner if millions of devices were sold by each major device maker over the next year. Device owners will naturally only want to read what they can find for their device...especially with the integration of online stores.