Actually, I thought that the most controversial statement was that the Kindle was just a transitional device. I thought millions of Kindle owners would be spitting fire at the idea that their beloved e-ink reading devices were not the end and pinacle of the ebook reading experience and would be replaced by tablets
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FWIW, I think that there will be another generation of e-ink readers, may be two. But the focus is clearly shifting toward tablets. The shift may not be to "general purpose " tablets, though , but to "reader tablets" tied to a particular store. There is the Nook Color; there will be a Kindle tablet, modelled on the NC; there may even be a Kobo tablet, in time.