Will You Consider Buying a Kindle at Its New Price?

October 8, 2009

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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Miss Tina 3 years 27 weeks

I 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.

3 years 31 weeks

Has to go below $100

KristinDaBomb 3 years 31 weeks

I 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.

Susanna 3 years 31 weeks

you need a fourth option -- i already bought a kindle and am annoyed that the price keeps dropping!

PrincessOats 3 years 31 weeks

There's no option for "I want a different brand." I have my eye on a Sony.

caroline 3 years 31 weeks

they can keep dropping the price, but im still a poor college student.. :(

Leila07 3 years 31 weeks

@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.

poissondujour 3 years 31 weeks

I 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?

BabyNorbert 3 years 31 weeks

If 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!

dexaholic 3 years 31 weeks

I have Stanza on my iPhone and it does the same thing, and it's free!

PrincessLtrain 3 years 31 weeks

I perfer the Sony version, so no, I won't by a Kindle. :)

Akasha 3 years 31 weeks

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&pf_rd_p=493397411&pf_rd_s=left-nav-2&pf_rd_t=101&pf_rd_i=507846&pf_rd_m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&pf_rd_r=0CW72ZRFPT99S6655RDH

Akasha 3 years 31 weeks

Great 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. I 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.

Akasha 3 years 31 weeks

staple salad 3 years 32 weeks

Still 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.

Jmartens 3 years 32 weeks

I am going for it. I have been wanting one and at this price, I can't resist!

hex913 3 years 32 weeks

I think I will get one if it hits the $150-$200 range.

mek123 3 years 32 weeks

I still want one but the price would have to drop to the $100-150 range.

mallorycurtis 3 years 32 weeks

i 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.

chipjimi 3 years 32 weeks

I'll buy one if the price is dropped to $225.

Baby Girl 3 years 32 weeks

It 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.

morninghurts 3 years 32 weeks

I 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)

3 years 32 weeks

Still too expensive. Maybe if it was in color but even $100 would be too much.

wendybird 3 years 32 weeks

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.

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