Kindle 2’s Price Drops From $299 To $259
I want a Kindle but I need to wait for awhile before I can spend extra money on something like that. I like the idea of a Kindle, then again I have to say I hate the idea of how one company is trying to control what you can read and what not by making e-books that sell on Kindle can only be used with Kindle. Yes, Amazon, I’m talking about you! No wonder Amazon and a few others who are using the same electronic book selling model are opposing Google’s advancement in digitizing books and let people get free accesses to those. To be fair, Google cannot release all digital books as free in full but only for some, because not all books that Google digitizes are in the clear of copyright. Still, companies that are controlling the selling of e-books are nervous, and they want to make sure the resource that produces the money got to be scarce.
We saw how a closed model for software, music, news, movies, and other media are beginning to erode slowly, and this is especially true for news and magazines — the companies.
Anyway, if you are a fan of Kindle, and you want to get one just like me, then today is a good day for you, because the price for a slimmer Kindle which is Kindle 2 has fallen from $299 to $259. I prefer this price to be dropped to even more. If Kindle 2 gets to around $150, then I will not have a second thought of shelling out some precious money to get it. Unfortunately, I doubt that Kindle 2 will get that cheap unless Kindle 3 comes out, but by then I don’t want a Kindle 2 anymore, and instead I want a Kindle 3.
Why I speak badly about Kindle but I still want to have it? I think Kindle is an amazing device as it allows you to purchase books with ease, and you can read it on the go. You don’t have to carry like 20 books onto a bus or an airplane to switch between books when you feel like it, because Kindle allows you to carry like 1000 books or so and switching between books by using your fingers. Kindle 2’s size is slimmer than the older heavy bulky Kindle 1, and so it’s practical and stylish. The downside is that what you’ve purchased on a Kindle cannot be transferable, for an example to transfer e-books from Kindle to your laptop or desktop for further readings. This means the books you’ve bought on a Kindle that is belonging to you is your in a sense that a Kindle must be your only reading device. I think iPhone can also purchase Kindle’s e-books, but iPhone is using the same closed model, and so you have only very few devices to play around with e-books that you’ve purchased with Amazon.
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