Nook now $149

[Nathan Bransford]

Barnes & Noble is offering a lower-price Nook electronic reader with a Wi-Fi connection and it's cutting the price on the original Nook reader, the bookseller said Monday.

The Nook Wi-Fi is available now for $149 online at nook.com and bestbuy.com.

The company is lowering the price for its original Nook, which has both 3G and Wi-Fi, from $259 to $199.

That undercuts the $259 Kindle sold by Amazon.com, Nook's top competitor.

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[r louis scott]

Well, that came about just a little late for Father's Day, now didn't it?

I wish there was someplce to go to do a side-by-side comparison of these readers.

[Susan Quinn]

@rlouisscott Not sure if this will help, but here's a review of some e-readers.

@Nathan Did you see this fab article from The Mixed Up files blog about The One Laptop per Child project to bring affordable ($75!) e-readers to kids worldwide? Awesome.

[Nathan Bransford]

Ha - and now Amazon has dropped the Kindle price down to $189: http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/ ... illions-20

(via The Millions)

[Bryan Russell/Ink]

The Price War begins...?

[Mira]

I wonder if someday they'll give these things away for free.

That's sort of what Amazon is doing by making their Kindle app available for the I-Pad. Unless Microsoft paid Amazon for the application - that seems like a long-shot, though.

[wetair]

Nah, I think Amazon is just going for as wide a distribution of their platform as possibly. Makes it easier for them to sell ebooks.