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Whether the Kindle platform will persist is, as others have noted, not affected by this, since it runs on the iPad too.
Whether dedicated e-book readers will persist--I hope so, because I really like mine better than reading on my iPod. But the iPad--shiny! Even readers might prefer one because of all the other things it will do, and non-readers will (in my opinion) almost certainly prefer one.
On the other hand, I think the questions apparently asked (are you going to buy ebook reader 1, ebook reader 2, ebook reader 3 or the iPad?) is kind of an apples-and-oranges thing.
If we're trying to get at whether hardware ebook readers are likely to persist, a more useful question might have been "do you own a non-iPad e-book reader? If so, do you intend to quit using it (or have you already quit using it) to use an iPad instead?"
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