How will Amazon counter the new Sony Daily Reader?

[daffy4u]

Originally Posted by orion2001

E-textbooks will be useful if you are in class and can't lug around all your textbooks. But if you are home and working on things, you will always tend to go for a regular textbook rather than a digital one.

Or as touch screen computers mature, you could have several ebooks open (or even just highlight sections of each book) on the screen at one time and easily jump from page to page in each.

This is a test which is necessary in order progress into something more usable. Just because it doesn't work now doesn't mean it won't ever work.

[juj1n]

Originally Posted by Nate the great

I just got another one. And since it was refurbished (not second hand), it came with the 1 year warranty.

Originally Posted by Donnageddon

An opinion concerning the 700 is one thing, but a plainly wrong declarative statement such as this is just nonsense.

The sidle lighting (and the touch interface) was the main reason I purchased the 700 and the reason I still use it rather than my 505.

^ I can understand that there are some people that go against the grain but the overwhelmingly large consensus was the side lighting was a flawed feature in the 700 and the space between the two screens made it more susceptible to dust and dulled contrast. Sony listened to the 'majority' complaints of many 700 users and removed it. As for the kindle 1 the same applies. The majority don't like the kindle 1 but there are still people that stand by it. Nothing wrong with that of course...

Originally Posted by daffy4u

Or as touch screen computers mature, you could have several ebooks open (or even just highlight sections of each book) on the screen at one time and easily jump from page to page in each.

This is a test which is necessary in order progress into something more usable. Just because it doesn't work now doesn't mean it won't ever work.

Very true... the technology is still evolving. As of right now it isn't really a viable option but I have no doubts in the future e textbooks will be popping up everywhere. It's almost bound to happen with the way e readers and computers are progressing.

[fugazied]

They will.. eventually. They are definitely not ignoring the progress of other competing devices. They are a little slow with adding some features though, however, we did receive the DX earlier than expected.

It's all good, marketplace competition will ensure fast development of these devices overall.