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Originally Posted by Penforhire
While I won't buy one that is NOT a touchscreen (plus buttons), after using the IR-based system on my PRS-650. Worth at least $50 to me, in the current pricing scheme. I think we'll see E-ink reader prices race below $100 in another year or two as color tablets grab more market share.
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I believe that we'll see monochrome eInk readers
disappear as color tablets grab more marketshare. That's the nature of consumer devices.
We're already seeing non-touchscreen readers down at "clearance" prices over the last 2 weeks. (The $250 Literati going for $70, the $179 Aluratek Libre Pro now $99) By the end of Feb 2011, I suspect that non-touchscreen readers will be hard to find in stores.
I want a light, no frills, well-built, responsive, inexpensive ereader. A uni-tasker that does that one thing extremely well... Unfortunately, I'm in the very small minority. The only consumer segment where uni-taskers appear to thrive is in the kitchen.