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Originally Posted by mrsp
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Dymocks need to be selling a zippy, trendy VW and instead they want us to buy a Hummer (probably a very bad analogy).
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It is down here. Hummers are rarely seen, so perhaps "Range Rover" would work better maybe.
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In some ways, I think they could have even started selling eb1150s for $100 each before Christmas and they would have made a killing.
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They could probably have sold it for double that if they kept on the Kindle bandwagon. Aussies don't like missing out, so I think they would have snapped up the "bargain".
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Then in 6 months bring out a more expensive e-ink device like the Gen3 or the one that ETI have as a demo or whatever it is.
Once the cheap device and the medium priced superior device were well established then they could get into the high end stuff.
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Why aren't you running Dymocks?
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Unless they start selling a cheaper device and start releasing more current titles, I think they have a flop on their hands. 
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I've never retained any confidence in anything Dymocks does. My longtime dealings with them leave me with the opinion that they're disorganised, apathetic nincompoops that run their bookstore like a large supermarket ("There's product on the shelves - what are you complaining about?").
Cheer up.
There's always B&H, et cetera. (in the same way that it's almost always far cheaper and far quicker for me to order a dead-tree book from Amazon than to order it from Dymocks, to the point that Dymocks could order it from Amazon themselves and still make a massive profit
and get it to me quicker. I
do like actual store-browsing though, but Borders is better
).