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When the new eink readers were announced I was more optimistic than now that something essentially new will happen in the ebook world. Leaving aside the inherent delays and glitches in new tech, I am more and more convinced that in the "chicken-egg" content-device quandary, content comes first so "epublish/digitize/pirate and they will come".
We can have all the new devices we want (and we started having more and more, considering the new higher resolution pdas, the tablets, umpc's, pepper, nokia, and the einks), but the commercial e-book market is not going to be more alive until enough drm free and reasonably priced ebooks will be available.
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