Kindle, Nook hitting rock bottom prices

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With the arrival of iPad from Apple and book reading applications coming quickly on iPhone and Android phones, competition is getting neck-breaking among E-reader devices.

Amazon Kindle, Barnes & Noble Nook have apparently seem to hit the rock bottom prices for their e-readers and margin of profit is very sleek for e-readers. Only Sony e-reader has not cut down the price among the bigger players whereas smaller companies like Kobo( Borders ereader at $149), iRex,Plastc Logic and others  have to work very hard to compete with the big guns like Amazon and B&N even with drastic cut in prices for their respective e-readers.

The price war started with Barnes & Noble’s introduction of Wifi only Nook for just $149 and Wi-Fi/3G model at $199. Amazon was quick to follow the lead by dropping 3G Kindle 2 price to $189.

Kindle and Nook both uses Vizplex E Ink for crispy paper like display which is superior at daytime compared to its counter part brighter and sharper LCD display used in iPad and smartphones.

After some search and reviews from authetic sites, i believe the main reason behind this critical price cut is due to the launch and popularity of iPad from Apple which has passed the 3 MILLLION mark. Barnes and Noble has openly admitted that they have to cut the price because an all purpose device at $500 is hard to compete with only book reader device at $249.

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Is Eee Pad a Competitor to iPad from Asus

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iPad has made its debut in the market with flash colors and is already been a success. It seems that after iPhone everything launched by Apple is a success no matter if world requires it or not. Even without including estimated revenues from iPad, Apple is already on a bumpy profit line and second quarter seems to be far more profitable with iPad revenues and launch of new iPhone model.

Other companies like Microsoft, Dell and Asus has jumped into the bandwagon of Tablet PCs after the sensational tablet PC from Apple, the iPad. It seems that Asus is going to be second best company to launch a tablet PC that can offer a real competition to our beloved Apple iPad.

This new tablet PC is going to be named as Eee Pad right after popular netbook series of EeePC. The device will run google’s Android on Nvidia Tegra Processor and costs between $479 and $510 with an expected launch in couple of months.

Dell is working on an Android based tablet to compete with hp’s Windows 7 based Slate.

By the end of this year, we are going to see lot of Tablet PCs and this really gonna be a fun.

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