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Originally Posted by Penforhire
I agree with your proposal but I still fear e-readers are a tiny segment of the market. I ask everyone I run into if they ever heard of e-ink or e-readers and only a few people have a clue what I'm talking about. I'm trying to be an e-reader evangelist because I want further development. The Kindle is not making a dent yet.
The funny thing is they had the Kindle splashed on Amazon's front page for months but even Amazon users go "huh?" when I ask them. E-readers are not yet mainstream American devices. We're just hanging out in a rarified crowd here.
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Of the last ten of my visits to Amazon.com, only one came through the home page; the rest came through links from sites. You're right, three years is too short a time, unless someone accelerates that process with a killer reader device, the "ipod" of readers, so to speak. Even kindle owners will agree that the kindle is not the device that will usher in wide-scale use of e-books.