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Originally Posted by harryE123
it's not that the public is not ready for 9.7" it's that no one can undercut amazon in the price to offer something similar because amazon is subsidising it with book sales. That's why irex went bust, it has neither amazon's clout nor it's business model, and it's in the business model. Plus, we are in a recession and already plenty of gadgets pry for attention, smart phones, ipads, gadgets of all sorts, computers...it's not easy for a single purpose book reading device. Plus someone has to create the market as per usual, the way apple does. But apple right now is killing everyone with a combines product that to some people is better than a single purpose e-reader. So if we oversimplify all these we reach the wrong conclusions.
But trust me, the market is there, and the public is ready, a decent a4 or close pdf e-reader will be a best seller in academia and people who read lots of technical articles for example.
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I think you are wrong in your characterisation of the way amazon are with the KDX, unlike with their smaller models they are not pricing it overly aggressively to keep others out of the market, the pricing of tablets is probably a far bigger reason why we haven't seen more large e-ink devices because unless you did have a full a4 reader then the greater flexibility of an lcd with regards scrolling, zooming etc. would tend to outweigh the downsides.