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I am currently living in China, about an hour from Shanghai. When you go to the big computer malls, you see lots and lots of eink book readers for sale, in different sizes and price ranges. However, the overall price is still much higher than in North America. I talked to a vendor there who was showing me the latest model and he admitted that no foreigners ever buy book readers in China due to the high price (still about US $300 and up) compared to North American prices. He said that he hopes the manufacturers will start to drop the prices so he could sell more. With the arrival of the iPad, the newest status device, I have a feeling that eink devices will start to fade, especially due to their high prices. I hope the companies that sell them start to drop the prices dramatically or else they will become marginalized. It is too bad they kept the prices so high, since they had a nice head-start on Apple. Short-term greed is pretty common in China, instead of long-term thinking.
I was looking at a nice model but they are setup so there is no English options, just Chinese. Too bad. If the prices were to drop, I might rethink getting one. They make some nice ones here.
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