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Originally Posted by patilsaurabhr
Some e-readers have really good anti-fingerprint screen. Amazon can do it.
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I think the issue may actually turn out to be not so much "can we do it?" or "should we do it?", but rather "can we do it at $150 or less?". I know a lot of people who would like to give eBook readers a try outside of the usual "early adopter"/IT crowd and from a business point of view, it probably makes more sense to focus on that (fairly large) group. That's why I think price is going to be a bigger selling point than new features. An eBook reader priced around the $100 mark would put it in "impulse buy" territory for a lot of people.
Another question is, of course, whether Amazon wants to go the "loss leader" route with the Kindle when it's easy to buy eBooks from a competitor that can then be converted and read on the Kindle.