Amazon’s latest price increase makes shopping beyond the Kindle lineup more compelling than it was a week ago. The base 16GB Kindle now costs $149.99, the 16GB Paperwhite is $199.99, and the 16GB Colorsoft has climbed to $289.99.
That does not automatically make every Kindle alternative cheaper. Some cost more than Amazon’s entry-level reader, but they can offer advantages Kindle does not, including built-in library borrowing, native EPUB support, physical page-turn buttons, handwritten notes, repairable hardware, or access to several ebook-store apps on one device.
Amazon’s latest Kindle price increases are therefore only one part of the…
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