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Sonist · 02-07-2011, 09:27 PM

I do wish the media would pick up this story ("Amazon Shafts Their High-End Buyers" would make a nice headline).

I really doubt it has anything to do with hardware, but rather with the fact that Amazon doesn't feel they have any competition at the KDX level, since nobody else makes a large-screen device.

So they have a captive audience which has nowhere to go, no matter how irate they get.

Not a wise long-term strategy, IMO, but there it is.

If someone like Sony came out with a 10"+ screen Pearl device with EPUB capability, I am sure KDX updates will come and prices will come down.

02-07-2011, 09:27 PM	#11
Sonist Apeist Posts: 2,126 Karma: 381090 Join Date: Oct 2008 Location: The sunny part of California Device: Generic virtual reality story-experiential device	I do wish the media would pick up this story ("Amazon Shafts Their High-End Buyers" would make a nice headline). I really doubt it has anything to do with hardware, but rather with the fact that Amazon doesn't feel they have any competition at the KDX level, since nobody else makes a large-screen device. So they have a captive audience which has nowhere to go, no matter how irate they get. Not a wise long-term strategy, IMO, but there it is. If someone like Sony came out with a 10"+ screen Pearl device with EPUB capability, I am sure KDX updates will come and prices will come down.