It seems as if the price of ebook readers is on a continual downward slope right now. You can now get hold of Amazon’s entry level Kindle for as little as $ 79. If you want a higher level model, $ 99 gets you a Kindle Touch or a Nook Simple Touch. Once the price drops below $ 100 then, for personal electronic items, you are pretty much into impulse buy country.
Falling prices have definitely been a major contributory factor in the rapid growth of ebook reader sales. As an illustration of just how quickly these devices have been adopted, consider the fact that Amazon now sells more ebooks than conventional paper books. It’s a sign of the times.
It’s interesting to note that the two big players in the market are Amazon and Barnes and Noble. The Kindle and the Nook are number one and two respectively – with the Kindle leading by quite some distance. On the face of it, consumers seem to like to get their ebook readers and ebooks from the same place that they normally get their traditional reading material.