Kindle Oasis costs too much? Amazon and others have other offers – Wired.it

The price of the new Kindle puts it out of reach for many potential buyers. But the move is deliberate: the other devices are all for sale

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15 April 2016

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It is the day of the launch officer who Kindle Oasis , the last ebook reader on the market offered by Amazon, is doing discuss the digital reading fans on the Net. the reasons are two: an asymmetrical design and broken into two components is selling well, and a price that instead goes far beyond the common perception of as you may pay to an ebook reader.

the cost of Oasis in fact is very high ; Yet, as the house has had occasion to point out when we had first hand the gadget, we must consider that the Kindle is only the last The more ambitious proposal of a range which is still on the market full of all previous models. On the Amazon site in fact you can still find the version Touch (at 69 euro), the popular Paperwhite with illuminated screen and high resolution (129 euro), and the luxurious Voyage , with wire display, touch sensor buttons and built-in lighting (189 euro).

Although the competition is able to offer similar alternatives in virtually identical prices, but remaining Amazon in the house the speech is simple: the newest do not want to cannibalize the other ; quite simply try to offer something more from the point of view of design and ease of use. The real money of the rest coming from the sale of the books.

Put aside for a moment the price, though, other fans are lamenting the absence of Oasis a feature that the truth never came on Amazon home readers: the ‘ waterproofing , that instead the Kobo opponents have already implemented on their Aura H2O now more than a year ago. In this case, however, the possible solutions are only two: turn right at the competition (which offers its reader at a price of 179 €), or hope that impermeabilizzatori of WaterFi professionals realize a waterproof version of Oasis as they did in the past with Kindle Paperwhite .

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