You have to give points to Amazon for trying something new and different but they seem to fall in the Consumer Electronics 101 trap. History is littered with examples of devices that have priced themselves out of the market. Amazon could have REALLY made a BIG splash with this device. Aesthetics aside, they should have kept the price below $100 and made more money on downloads. They should have just focused on books and try to keep the costs down for Kindle 1.0 and look for enhancements for 2.0. They were smart not to put extraneous wireless data charges into the mix. But charging for Blogs – what is that all about?