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Originally Posted by JSWolf
Lets say you are looking for an ebook reader in the USA. You have the 505 and the Kindle. Now, you go an look at the prices for both devices. $100 difference. Just purchase 10 bestsellers using the Kindle and the price has just become cheaper then the 505 based on the amount you've just saved. Buy even more and the saving make the Kindle cost even less. Face it, Amazon is going to win if you look at it from an economic standpoint.
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That's a good way to put it. I also see it as a sort of "America Online" thing going on. All the techies hated AOL because it was basically holding the hands of the newbies and making it so easy for them to get online. And guess what? It kicked butt, became the number one place for most people in the US and it's how most of them got online.
Of course, then came high-speed internet and AOL pretty much died a painful death. But for a while, they made things easy and that is what average joe user wanted. It's the techie people who cried. Then when most internet providers made it easy, the newbies came aboard.
My point is, good or bad, making it easy for consumers is what will make the Kindle a winner. For a while anyway. Average Joe User doesn't know what DRM means, doesn't know formats, doesn't know or want to know how to convert. They just want to buy a book, now and easy.
I like my Sony Reader as well, but I have a few Mac non-tech friends and they were scared of the steps I had to go thru to get a book on here. I didn't think it was hard, but they sure did...