Amazon Cuts Kindle Price to $189

Susana Polo

Published: Jun 21, 2010 04:26 pm

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Amazon has dropped the price of a Kindle 2 by almost 30%, from $259 to $189. This announcement comes so hot on the heels Barnes & Noble‘s more affordable Nook announcements that it may have left scorch marks.

Could Amazon be feeling the pressure of competing against other “book only” ereaders (not to mention the iPad)? Is it worth pointing out that their black and white only text reader now costs less than a Wii? Has this announcement energized this frequent commuter towards their product?

Nah. Not really.

(via BoingBoing.)

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Susana Polo thought she'd get her Creative Writing degree from Oberlin, work a crap job, and fake it until she made it into comics. Instead she stumbled into a great job: founding and running this very website (she's Editor at Large now, very fancy). She's spoken at events like Geek Girl Con, New York Comic Con, and Comic Book City Con, wants to get a Batwoman tattoo and write a graphic novel, and one of her canine teeth is in backwards.