It seems like most manufacturers of ereaders are going to start out getting costlier within the US in 2025. Pocketbook simply raised the costs of a number of Pocketbook ereaders on their official Amazon retailer.
The Pocketbook Fundamental Lux 4, the Pocketbook Period Colour, the InkPad Colour 3, and the Verse and Verse Professional are all now $10 costlier than they had been beforehand. The InkPad 4 is $20 costlier now and the InkPad Lite is $30 extra. Their bigger fashions nonetheless appear to have the identical costs as earlier than, however that would change.
It doesn’t appear like the costs of their covers have gone up, however I’ve by no means paid shut sufficient consideration to these to know for sure. However most are moderately priced within the $25-$30 vary.
The worst factor about costs going up like that is they hardly ever ever return down once more after they’ve gone up, even after tariffs finish.
Kobo elevated the costs of their ereaders by $10 every final month. Onyx has introduced that they’ll be elevating their costs within the US as nicely, however up to now they haven’t (costs went up on B&H for just a few days however then they went again to regular).
To this point B&N hasn’t elevated their Nook costs, however their present fashions are getting older at this level. Amazon hasn’t elevated Kindle costs but both, however being an even bigger firm they may not must. They already elevated the worth of the Kindle Scribe by $30 once they launched the brand new mannequin.
It’s a disgrace seeing all of the smaller ereader firms having to extend costs, whereas Amazon retains getting away with charging much less for Kindles and making clients pay a $20 premium to eliminate adverts to assist make up for it. Perhaps Amazon will improve the worth of advert removing to $30 to stay it to clients much more, however you by no means know what Amazon goes to do.
