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To me the short answer to the question posed in the title of the thread is that e-book readers are a niche device so the economies of scale do not apply. A slightly modernized Ebk1150 (more storage, more pixels, reading directly the formats it can convert now, but with the same fast navigation and excellent ergonomics) selling at comparable price with the current one and marketed by a well known company could break out of the niche.
An all purpose handheld with a big enough screen (Nokia, iPhone, Pepper) could do it also, but I am quite skeptical since the technical requirements will either make it too expensive or not very usable.
In the meantime we use whatever is available and suits us, and there are enough choices out there with more announced by the day it seems. Now if commercial content reasonably priced would follow...
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