Everybody is excited about the new spate of tablet/ereaders -- Amazon's Kindle Fire, Barnes & Noble's Nook Tablet and the Kobo Vox -- that are shipping or about to ship. And quite rightly -- these Amazon-based devices allow consumers to have some of the functionality of more expensive tablets such as the Apple iPad and Samsung Galaxy Tab.
However, in all the excitement, perhaps not enough attention is being given to the "stocking stuffers" -- the smaller and less expensive E-Ink e-readers that may not give you a lot of browsing capability, but that may, because of their approximately $100 price tags, be even more of an impulse buy than their sexier siblings.
All three vendors are vying in this market, either by dropping the price of their existing products, or introducing tweaked versions of previous devices..............................
http://blogs.computerworld.com/19276/e_book_readers_as_stocking_stuffers
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