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So What?
Frankly what does it matter? Those who like the current line of ereaders will buy them. Those that don't wont. Those who don't read won't care at all. Over time new models will come out with more/different features. Some may be hits some may die failures. Is this news to anyone?
The important trend is the overall direction toward more use of electronic files rather than paper files. Having more content available is important. What actual physical device you read them on not so important. Based on other electronic device life cycles you can make a pretty good assumption that the capabilities of the devices will improve while the prices decline. As prices decline more people will be interested. Perhaps at some point multiple functions will converge into a single device. I find it hard to believe that at some point in the future be it 10 years or 100 electronic files won't be the norm and printed paper the exception.
The one issue brought up that I totally agree on is that having all these rediculous incompatable formats doesn't do anything good for anyone. Orphaned formats are an issue. Ideally any file should be useable on any reading device or reading software. Short of that every file type should be convertable to plain text or some standard format to avoid the whole orphan issue. There really is no excuse not to have this today.
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