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Old 05-27-2008, 10:00 PM   #46
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I was just browsing through Sony's website. I added the PRS 505 to my shopping cart and in the basket was a "Promotional Discount" of $45.00. Let the prices continue to fall!
Total without tax is at $254.99.
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Having had mine since 11/20, I don't begrudge Amazon the $40, and I hope this moves the price to more mass-market levels.
Real mass-market price levels for electronics is in the $50 range, so any eReader has a ways to go. Sort of how DVD players didn't take off until they were being sold in grocery stores and corner stores for $30. I'd like to think that high prices won't keep people away, such as with iPods, but a hell of a lot more people listen to music than read.
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But that is not the intended market for ebook readers. Each company "thinks" they've solved the book file management issue.

They are aiming to create an experience that mirrors reading a paper book and those sorts of task they think are best handled on the device, regardless of how well it actually "works."

Again, look at the way they are marketed and you will see why it will probably be a long time before Amazon releases a PC/Mac reader for the Amazon Kindle.
Actually the Kindle is the only product that does not have a version running on a PC. That should tell you something about what everyone else thinks. Most can use a PC to help manage the eBooks and to provide a platform to develop your own books. Some even allow you to sync the books in such a way that you can pick up where you left off in your reading.

Amazon is clearly positioning themselves differently but is this always a good thing?

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Real mass-market price levels for electronics is in the $50 range, so any eReader has a ways to go. Sort of how DVD players didn't take off until they were being sold in grocery stores and corner stores for $30. I'd like to think that high prices won't keep people away, such as with iPods, but a hell of a lot more people listen to music than read.
Where did you get the $50 number? Certainly iPODs are mass marketed at above this level. Certainly DVD players mostly cost more that $30 bucks. Where are you buying one in a grocery store. DVD took off as soon as it hit $100. I think you are smoking funny cigarettes.

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Greetings,
I was just browsing through Sony's website. I added the PRS 505 to my shopping cart and in the basket was a "Promotional Discount" of $45.00. Let the prices continue to fall!
Total without tax is at $254.99.
Maybe we'll start to have a price war on these things

How low will they go, especially with Astak coming on the scene
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Even though I bought the PRS-500 less than a year ago, I've been looking a lot at the Kindle. I like a lot of the features but since I'm in the navy and based overseas, I wouldn't be able to take advantage of the EVDO network unless I'm visiting back state-side (or until after I get out of the navy and move back to the states). This is a big drawback for me. I really wish Amazon had put in WiFi with the EVDO.
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I was just browsing through Sony's website. I added the PRS 505 to my shopping cart and in the basket was a "Promotional Discount" of $45.00. Let the prices continue to fall!
Total without tax is at $254.99.
I put it in my shopping cart and I don't get a discount. What gives?
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Old 05-29-2008, 01:08 AM   #55
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Even though I bought the PRS-500 less than a year ago, I've been looking a lot at the Kindle. I like a lot of the features but since I'm in the navy and based overseas, I wouldn't be able to take advantage of the EVDO network unless I'm visiting back state-side (or until after I get out of the navy and move back to the states). This is a big drawback for me. I really wish Amazon had put in WiFi with the EVDO.
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Even though I bought the PRS-500 less than a year ago, I've been looking a lot at the Kindle. I like a lot of the features but since I'm in the navy and based overseas, I wouldn't be able to take advantage of the EVDO network unless I'm visiting back state-side (or until after I get out of the navy and move back to the states). This is a big drawback for me. I really wish Amazon had put in WiFi with the EVDO.
If you have a US address and Credit Card you will still be able to buy and download the Kindle books to your PC and move them to your Kindle with the USB connection.... if you were so inclined.

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Where did you get the $50 number? Certainly iPODs are mass marketed at above this level. Certainly DVD players mostly cost more that $30 bucks. Where are you buying one in a grocery store. DVD took off as soon as it hit $100. I think you are smoking funny cigarettes.

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Any grocery store within 100 miles of where I live carries DVD players, and they carry the cheap models that the mass-market buys. And $30 is on the high side for some stores, which give them away for free with another larger purchase.
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Spellbot 5000, I have to say, where the freak do you live?

I have never seen a grocery store selling DVD players!

Well, maybe the Piggly Wiggly I went to in Sturgis, South Dakota circa 1975 at a price of 2 million dollars, but in all honesty, I was smoking funny cigarettes at the time, so my memory cannot be trusted.

I am not saying you are lying!

I am just saying: WTF?
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Spellbot 5000, I have to say, where the freak do you live?

I have never seen a grocery store selling DVD players!...
I don't know about Spellbot 5000, but in Australia, yeah, in places like Coles (a grocery supermarket), they'll be selling cheap DVD players, usually at the end of an aisle in that "SALE!" bit on the end. I think the ones at Coles down the road are AUS$29, but I can check for an exact amount if you want.

EzyDVD (a DVD seller, online and with stores) was selling them for something like AUS$10 if you bought AUS$60 worth of DVDs (and their DVDs are often pretty reasonable value too).

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Spellbot 5000, I have to say, where the freak do you live?

I have never seen a grocery store selling DVD players!

Well, maybe the Piggly Wiggly I went to in Sturgis, South Dakota circa 1975 at a price of 2 million dollars, but in all honesty, I was smoking funny cigarettes at the time, so my memory cannot be trusted.

I am not saying you are lying!

I am just saying: WTF?
I live in Vancouver.
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