Kindles at $79 and $99 ought to drive quite a lot of adoption of basic e-readers. The issue is what comes next, at the low end.
Over the last four years, prices for the low-end model have dropped from about $400 to $80.
Bundle a content subscription and the price could be really low.
Kindle pricing over time
Thursday, September 29, 2011
How Low can Kindle Prices Go?
Gary Kim has been a digital infra analyst and journalist for more than 30 years, covering the business impact of technology, pre- and post-internet. He sees a similar evolution coming with AI. General-purpose technologies do not come along very often, but when they do, they change life, economies and industries.
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