COMPETITION FROM IPAD SPURS EREADER PRICE WAR

Has the entrance of the Apple iPad put eBook readers upon the endangered-species list? Some pundits consider so, yet you aren’t as sure. In any event, final week, Barnes & Noble dismissed the initial storm in an escalating eReader price fight by dropping the cost of the top-of-the-line Nook to $199 as well as by introducing an entry-level, Wi-Fi-only Nook for $149. Almost immediately, tip aspirant Amazon.com responded with the $70 cost dump of the own, shortening the cost of the Kindle to $189.  Borders assimilated the ravel by charity the $20 present label with the $149 Kobo eReader. This week, Amazon rolled out the new chronicle of the high-end Kindle DX, slicing the cost by over $100 to $379.

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