Consider E-Book Availability And Price When Choosing An E-Book Reader
The Amazon Kindle e-book reader has been a hugely successful product for Amazon. It was first released in November of 2007 but it was the launch of the Kindle 2 in February 2009 which saw e-book readers really take off. Amazon followed up with the large display Kindle DX model in June of 2009 & the e-book reader market started to grow exponentially.
The Kindle rapidly became Amazon s number 1 selling product. Over the Christmas period of 2009 it became Amazon s most gifted product ever. As a result of the growth in the e-book reader market many other manufacturers launched or updated e-book readers of their own. The higher level of competition produced a downward trend in prices & gave potential buyers additional options both of these are good things of course.
With increased choices available prospective e-book reader buyers need a way to compare the different available options. It s certainly possible to find a lot of reviews on the Internet which compare the Sony Daily Edition with the Kindle reader the iPad with the Nook reader etc. However making comparisons between e-book readers solely in terms of the hardware is not entirely representative of the e-book reader experience. As a rule & in common with any piece of personal electronic equipment the most recently released model will tend to have more features & functions than older models. To get a proper idea of how e-book readers compare with each other factors such as display readability control layout & usability availability of books price of books ease of connection & purchasing of books etc all require to be considered.
Some of these factors are subjective but others can be analysed more precisely & incorporated into the decision-making process when deciding which e-book reader to buy. The Kindle reader certainly enjoys an advantage when it comes to the number of books available. At the moment the Amazon website has more than 420 000 titles on offer & that number is growing daily. It also seems that the Kindle has a significant advantage when it comes to the cost of books.
Based upon a recent study by the New York Times it also seems that Amazon may have an advantage when it comes to the cost of books. The New York Times considered the purchase of 10 books 5 fiction & 5 non-fiction titles selected from the New York Times 10 Best books of 2009 & looked at the comparative cost to buy all of these for each of the Kindle the Sony Daily Edition & the Nook readers. Ten Kindle books cost a total of $136.87 an average of $13.69 a book. The same set of 10 books bought for the Sony reader resulted in an average price of $15.26. Buying the same books from the Barnes & noble website gave staggering average price per book of $19.29.
Therefore based upon these figures if you read a book a week you would save almost $300 every year by buying a Kindle instead of the Nook. What that would mean is that your Kindle reader would not only pay for itself but would leave you with a few dollars spare to buy some books in less than a year. Currently there are a lot of discussions taking place between e-book retailers & the major publishing houses. It may be that e-book prices may be subject to change in future. However it seems obvious that any prospective e-book buyer would do well to consider not only the availability of books but their price level before deciding upon which e-book reader to buy.
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