Thread: The Death of E-Readers Is All Your Fault
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Old 01-07-2013, 10:07 AM   #89
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Originally Posted by stewacide View Post
I think there is a huge market for large eink readers: the problem so far has been price point. I know lots of older folks that like HUGE laptop screens because of their ageing eyes now that such laptops are no longer a premium niche product (as they were back when the first 17" PowerBooks were launched).
Perhaps the market is there, but I don't think a lower price is possible. If it were possible to deliver a 9.7" reader for less than the price of an M92 or DXG and make a killing, I assume someone would have done it; certainly an Amazon has the clout to get the screens at the cheapest possible price point and can sell the devices at cost or even at a loss. And yet they were $349,= to the last. And at that price, people are getting tablets.

But an 'M93'/'DXG Next Gen' with one of those 2400x1650 screens, frontlight and touch? I would pay 6, 700 bucks for that, but how many would they sell?
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