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Originally Posted by NatCh
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I would love to see Amazon and Sony make a whole lot of noise about e-books, nothing like a good clash of the titans to draw attention.  |
The problem with that is that this market doesn't seem to have any real titans.
It seems to be more a matter of garden gnomes fighting over a small and rather smelly pond.
At this moment ebook readers are devices for gadget enthousiasts, hobbying programmers who need a challenge, a handfull of real ebook reading fanatics and a few executives who want impress their secretaries.
The titans will be clashing over an obscure device that more than 99% of your normal Joe's just shrug about and then forget because in their view reading an ebook means loading, formatting, converting, typesetting, swearing, startup, buttons, more swearing, waiting, charging, button pushing and scrolling, manual reading, updating, still even more swearing, calling repair centers, black/white only, huge initial costs, breaking nails and swearing.
"Right...get me my Donald Duck comic and stick that ebook stuff where the sun don't shine..."
No amount of noise is going to make a difference to that any time soon.