U.S. e-reader prices slashed as battle for eyeballs heats up

The likely inevitable price war in e-readers has broken out, big time, in the U.S. It can't be long before similar price-cutting occurs in Canada. Today, according to a story in the Wall Street Journal, Barnes & Noble cut the price of its Nook reader to $199 and introduced a wi-fi model for only $149; and Amazon.com followed suit by lowering the price of its Kindle to $189.Both the Nook and