E-readers: The Price Might Entice Readers, Author Notes

Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos displays a Kindle during an interview Tuesday. Amazon.com Inc. has cut the price of its Kindle electronic-book reader to $259, down $100 since Jan. 1. BEN MARGO Associated PressYou won't catch New York Times best-selling author and Davis resident John Lescroart reading an electronic book anytime soon. "I'm a hold-a-book-in-your-hands kind of guy and likely will remain that way," Lescroart said in a recent interview. Yet that doesn't mean this technological revolution and the economics of it are lost on him. "Hardcover sales of my last book were down 20 percent, while e-book sales were up 300 percent," he said.

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