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Originally Posted by RockdaMan
You do know that the Kindle 3 got uniformly high reviews from both the tech and mainstream press, right?
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Sure, I love my K3, but that's just the choice I made. I don't think there are any massive differences in the experience of reading on the different devices, it's just the user interface that's a bit different. I'm sure I'd be quite happy to read on an eink Nook or a Kobo.
The most important elements in Amazon's success in grabbing such a large share of market are price, range of territories in which they sell and their huge online book-store (and, linked to this, amount of public exposure). Form-factor, screen contrast, lending ebooks, connectivity - all relatively unimportant to the product's mass-market success, I think.
I suppose the press in general suddenly started crowing that the K3 was the product that found ereading devices ready to enter the mainstream. I find this kind of strange, since, apart from the Pearl screen, the device - in practical use - isn't significantly better than the Sony 505. I'd be interested to know if I'm wrong, and actually many MR readers think the K3 was a massive leap forward for ereader tech and user-interface.