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Originally Posted by hughes
According to Ebook Readers: Device to Go the Way of Dinosaurs?, shipments of ereaders appear to have peaked in 2011.
Are the long-run reading advantages offered by ereaders insufficient to offset the web, email, and movie versatility offered by tablets? |
Watch porn vs. read porn?
To me, it's a no-brainer!!
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Originally Posted by SteveEisenberg
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Color has triumphed over monochrome, in the marketplace, again and again. It did it in amateur -- and professional -- photography. It did it in television. It did it in computer monitors. It did it in PDA's. It did it in cell phones -- even the cheapest hand-held phones sold in developing countries now have a thoroughly unnecessary color screen. ....
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I know. To get monochrome phones is getting harder by the day.
OTOH, to find good monochrome films and prints is just getting more expensive.
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Originally Posted by BWinmill
... eink has too many advantages over the competition for moderate to heavy readers.
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Who are too small a market to keep industry going...
People do not read. They check Facebook and online gossip, though...
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Originally Posted by HarryT
... There are enormous areas of the world where ebook readers are NOT currently commonplace.
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True.
The question is: when will those saturate?
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Originally Posted by wvcherrybomb
If they ever stop making eInk readers, I'll be stocking up with a case of them as back ups.
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Me too. Still, the lack of interchangeable battery and the too short lifetime of the display are major problems.
I put my dollar on a small number of niche expensive devices (they'll cost more than the future iPads), with pure white-pure black 256 levels foldable displays, removable batteries, large memories, strictly tied to one or more content providers.
