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Amazon Announced Slimmer Kindle: Price Starts at $139 : World …

The world’s giant retailer Amazon has unveiled slimmer and sleeker Kindle which a much lower price. They call it as the third generation Kindle which is 21% … This drop of prices has been their way of gaining back public interest for the gadget as rivals such as Apple’s iPad has been flourishing in the market which also features the e-book reading. Chief Executive Jeff Bezos has made mention that at these price points, they’re starting to accumulate evidence that this …

Publish Date: 07/29/2010 3:46

http://www.worldcorrespondents.com/amazon-announced-slimmer-kindle-price-starts-at-139/888206

Amazon CEO hopes new Kindles, including a model costing $139 …

James McQuivey, a Forrester Research analyst, expects the new price will “shatter the bottom” of the e-reader market. “Anything that doesn’t have any kind of connectivity, like the Sony Pocket Reader, has to drop to $99 by the end of the year,” he … That would fit with hints from Amazon that cutting the Kindle’s price has helped. Amazon recently announced that Kindle sales growth accelerated since the company dropped the device’s price to $189 from $259 in late June, …

Publish Date: 07/28/2010 20:00

http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/amazon-ceo-hopes-new-kindles-including-a-model-costing-139-stoke-desire-for-its-e-readers/

Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos has announced that eBooks are outselling traditional hardbacks at Amazon.com. Over the past three months, Amazon sold 143 Kindle e-books in the United States for every 100 hardcovers, Bezos said. In the last month, the difference was even bigger: 180 Kindle titles for every 100 hardbacks. Of course, sales of e-books still trail far behind those of paperbacks, but the gap is narrowing, just as the gap between eBook and hardcover sales is widening.

Some commentators has complained that amazon’s numbers are distorted by the unusual number of independent authors publishing eBooks for the Kindle platform. But either way, the trend towards eBooks and eBook readers continues to impact traditional print. Traditional publishers have no choice but to plan for a predominately electronic future.