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Originally Posted by OtterBooks
The entire ebook/ereader market as it now exists was defined and created by e-ink and its dedicated devices. IMO tablets are irrelevant to their price other than possibly increasing the production of some shared components and increasing the competition for consumers' disposable income, unless they release book sized tablets with e-ink displays (or equivalent tech) suitable for that level of computing power, which may be a while.
If the demand for ereaders were about portable computing then they wouldn't exist, nor would the Kindle have sold eleventy-five gazillion units in a market where your average Android phone makes an ereader's computing power look like a pocket calculator.
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As I am a computer tech, eink was something I followed since it was first mentioned some years ago. Part of the reason is that there are pretty much only 2 sizes of current eink based readers, is because the smaller size was based on the average size of pages in a paper back book, and the larger reader screens come from the larger average size of hardback book paper. Outside of that, some companies are just trying to crowd the market with their LCD devices...
I believe the next step will actually be an OLED device that is rigid but almost as thin as thin cardboard or even paper... a decade or so down the road.