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Originally Posted by Kraken
Taylor, I say wait your three years. Clearly, eReaders are not for you at this point.
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The more I educate myself on the technology, the more excited I am. It seems that several new devices are just on the cusp, which is bound to change the market dynamics. I think within a year we'll see twice as many devices, new content providers, etc.
Don't you think the business market will drive the consumer market? Laptop PCs used to be a business-only special use machine. Mobile/Cell phones are another example. When enough businesses adopt a technology, they fund the development of consumer machines.
I think if a few devices geared for the business market (technical markup, bluetooth, external monitor/projector connectivity) appear it will have a trickle-down effect on the consumer market.
With the current dedicated reader consumer market, it's a bit of a chicken-and-egg situation. There isn't wide choice of cost-effective readers, so why produce content, and why develop an affordable reader for a market with limited commercial content? But add business use machines (businesses create their own content) and you'll create a class of users who have high-end devices that they'll take home and on business trips, and they'll want to do more with them than mark-up the latest batch of PDFs from Marketing.