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Originally Posted by HarryT
I'm not sure what this thread means when it says that "iPad owners will not be buying an e(book)reader". The iPad is an ebook reader, along with many other things too. It's a pretty good ebook reader. The only thing it's really not good at is reading outside in sunlight.
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Yep. My PDAs are useless in sunlight, but I crippled along for a decade or so without a direct-sunligh-readable display, and read a lot of books. I think iPad owners have some vague idea they did buy an ebook reader.
Who knows, they may buy a jetBook for the 20% of the time they need to read at the beach in sunlight[1]. If I were Ectaco, I'd be negotiating for iBook licensing rights as we type.
Regards,
Jack Tingle
[1] ref. the infamous Ectaco YouTube short showing how the jetBook blows away the iPad in direct sunlight. It's kind of hilarious, and kind of pathetic at the same time.