$200 used Kindles, rising K-book prices, the K2 and ePub, Steve Levy’s review, and more on the text-to-speech fuss

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By David Rothman

Used Kindle prices may drop very soon below the current $200-225 or so, according to a SmartMoney piece—found by Chris Walters of the Kindlerama blog, who follows up. As I write this, yes, I can point to a $200 bargain. Seller unknown, so be careful.

Also see our earlier thoughts. If you can hold out another month or two, why not? Photo is of the original Kindle.

Other K links of interest:

–Nearly 30 percent of books sold for the Kindle are now above $9.99, by Chris W.—appearing, in this case, in The Consumerist, a blog published by a subsidiary of Consumers Union.

–Steve Levy’s K2 review.

–Wired on the need for Amazon to embrace open e-book standards. Go, ePub! (Thanks to Chris Meadows for the spotting. See his earlier item.)

–Chris W.’s take on the Author’s Guild’s anti-consumer arguments against text-to-speech on the K2. Also see Robert Nagle’s earlier post in the TeleBlog.

Trivia of the day: "The Kindle Swindle?"—the headline over AG Prez Roy Blount’s Times article—is a phrase that anti-DRM activists first used. Of course, they didn’t go with a question mark.

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