Another price reduction on Amazon's Kindle — this time to $259. It's only been three months since the Kindle's price dropped to $300, and ReadWriteWeb predicts that e-reader sales are expected to increase dramatically, especially over the holiday season.
You've had mixed reactions to buying a Kindle, and when I asked last year, most of you said you weren't interested in buying one. Will that change with a lower price?

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I already have one, but had I known it was going to come down in price I would have waited. My husband got it for me out of our tax return Feb 2009 at the old price. I love it but I would have loved it more for $100 less.
1Still too expensive. Maybe if it was in color but even $100 would be too much.
2I want it to go down in price to at least $150 before I buy. I'd really like to get it anyways though since I really don't have much more room for books here (NYC apartment)
3It would have to be free. I still love my red Sony. I don't read enough to care about the wireless and I still think this could look a lot better.
4I'll buy one if the price is dropped to $225.
5i would definitely get one at this price because i paid that much for my ipod, and this is more useful. i might ask for one for christmas actually.
6I still want one but the price would have to drop to the $100-150 range.
7I think I will get one if it hits the $150-$200 range.
8I am going for it. I have been wanting one and at this price, I can't resist!
9Still way too expensive for me. Maybe if it had online functions that let you read things from like, Project Guttenberg or something I'd consider that price, but I don't think I'd pay much more than $100 for one.
10Great for the people that don't have it, but as someone who paid $369 for my Kindle, the two price drops in less than three months makes me nervous about purchasing anything from Amazon ever again. I can't complain about the fact that they have added new technology to the Kindle 2 as well with the international function, as I know technology upgrades, but the fact that the new tech is $80 less than what I paid for it really does make me angry.
11I had convinced my boss to get us all the DX's for Christmas so that we didn't have to print out PDF's endlessly and waste paper, but I might have to reconsider that now as I'm not sure if the price is going drop five minutes later.
FYI for those of you waiting for the price drop you can purchase refurbished Kindles from Amazon for $219 or were interested at a closer to $200 price point.
http://www.amazon.com/b/ref=gw_cto_refurbkindle?ie=UTF8&node=1293320011&...
12I perfer the Sony version, so no, I won't by a Kindle.
13I have Stanza on my iPhone and it does the same thing, and it's free!
14If I could get my school books on kindle I wouldn't hestiate... it would be so fantastic not to log around several books every day!
15I have a book rental subscription on booksfree.com, so this would just add to my bills. Who wants to pay $10 per book when there are other options out there?
16@staple salad: It does have that option to read free books from PG. I have downloaded several books from that site and a few other free e-book sites.
17they can keep dropping the price, but im still a poor college student..
18There's no option for "I want a different brand." I have my eye on a Sony.
19you need a fourth option -- i already bought a kindle and am annoyed that the price keeps dropping!
20I am still iffy about these. I know it is so much better for our environment, but the thought of paying that much, plus having to buy all the books you had bought in the past just sucks.
21Has to go below $100
22I would love to buy one if it went a bit cheaper (under $200 at least) and if they could read RSS feeds as well. I was informed that none of the eReaders can do RSS feeds, and to me it just seems stupid. I can read books and RSS feeds on my phone now, the only reason to get something new is if it was bigger and could handle all of my reading uses.
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