CNN’s breathless story about how the iPad is doing better on the secondary market (resale) than Amazon’s Kindle makes me wonder if no on there considered the obvious reasons:

1. Kindle prices drop with each new model (including subsidized models)
2. Kindle prices have been so low starting with the third generation (summer/fall 2010) that there it makes more sense to buy a new model with better features at the same or lower price.

Hence, little or no resale value.

iPad retains value longer than Kindle, research finds (CNN)