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Originally Posted by murraypaul
Well for one because the more successful companies can lower prices and force you out of the market. Which is pretty much what is happening now. Would you want to be a small eInk device manufacturer trying to compete with the Kindle and Nook, and the money behind them?
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Not really relevant when comparing the Kindle to the iPad, though. They are different devices and do different things well.
I wouldn't be too surprised if dedicated e ink devices don't gain much more market share than they already have, though. People who really like them mostly already have them. More people will end up reading ebooks on multipurpose devices, I suspect, but this does not in any way make the purpose-built devices less useful, and if enough of them sell, they'll continue to be made.