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Originally Posted by jplumey
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.
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An iPod of readers is highly unlikely, there are to many players involved in the closed loop market so far. Add to that an unsolvable EBabel and we're set to play the waiting game. Some alliances will have to be formed like the Beta/VHS conflict. Who's going to fold and join the other is yet to be clear. Right now, the market seems to be big enough to satisfy all players so far, it can almost be deemed an artisan approach more than a multinational. That can last indefinitely.