Amazon Devices Hit with Memory Shortage-Driven Price Hikes
Amazon's latest move to increase prices across its Echo, Fire TV, Kindle, and eero product lines is the latest casualty of the ongoing memory shortage.
The price hikes range from 60 percent to as high as $100 more in some cases. The base model Echo Dot saw the highest percentage increase in price, going from $50 to $80.
Other Echo products were equally hit with steep changes, like the Echo Show 21 that went from $400 to $500. On the less expensive side of products, the Fire TV Stick HD has been bumped up from $35 to $40.
The price increases also affect Amazon's popular e-readers, with the 16GB model of the latest Kindle now costing $150 instead of $110, and the 16GB model of the Kindle Paperwhite now at $200 compared to its previous $160 price.