On Monday, Amazon cut the price of their Kindle e-reader. Barnes & Noble had lowered the price of their Nook e-reader and Amazon is competing with that. On Wednesday, Sony slashed the price of its e-reader. What’s going on?
The impetus for all the price cutting is Apple’s new iPad. Besides being a computer, it is an e-reader. The tablet is a good size, weight and shape to be an e-reader, and users are really getting into it. Apple sold over two million units in the first 60 days it was on the market. That is serious competition.
This could be good news for self-publishers.
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