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Originally Posted by Cthulhu
@ the person concerned about art books: Microsoft's Surface could suffice to make the whole coffee table the art, and I ultimately hope that colour e-ink will allow for a similar experience, or possibly OLED screens.
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Maybe. If you feel like paying for that coffee table sized display. I'll take a coffee table
book, thank you. Among other things, I can
carry it.
But you
won't get satisfactory results on a
handheld. The screen is simply too small, and has to be for the device to
be a handheld.
Color eInk is in the experimental stage, but I'd guess it's a couple of years away from showing up in a product.
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@ critics of the high price of hardware (i.e. Kindle, PRS, &tc):
hardware is all ways pricey in the beginning. So long as the content stays reasonable, supply/demand demons will lower the price.
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Largely.
The biggest variable in the cost of a piece of consumer electronics is the debt service on the funding required to build the factory that makes it. The more of a device you make, the smaller a share of the allocated overhead each device bears, and the cheaper you can price it. Ebook readers are largely in the "pilot project" stage, with relatively limited production runs. If they become more mainstream, I expect cheaper pricing.
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Dennis