Amazon’s E-Book Reader

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The Kindle e-book reader was released by Amazon today at a price point of $399. A click on the Kindle books section of Amazon’s website displays over 91,000 results with e-book prices ranging from just pennies to $1,000, with most popular books landing in the $9.99 range. Newsweek has full coverage of the story along with a talk with Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos here.

Via Seth’s Blog.

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One Response to “Amazon’s E-Book Reader”

  1. Joy Says:
    November 20th, 2007 at 5:46 pm

    It’s nice to see that e-books are finally catching on… as an online student, I always try to purchase e-books for my classes when they are available. Considering I typically pay half of the cost of a standard textbook, it’s well worth it!

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