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Originally Posted by Prestidigitweeze
On the one hand, I do think Jeter's looking at it from an overly American-identified POV, hence the reduction of the market to those two stores.
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He's not doing a very good job of it. He's leaving out other shops in the USA that sell ePub. He needs to also realize that eBooks are not just an American thing. They are world wide and world wide, ePub is the clear leader. Amazon's Mobipocket is 2nd place.
Though he could possibly be correct about multifunction devices taking over from single use readers. Especially if the price is cheap enough vs. the eink readers. That would be a real shame as no other device used for reading eBooks has even close to the battery life of an eink reader. And for the long haul, that is important. Yes, the iPad2 gets about 10 hours of battery life, But there have been times when I've been away from a power outlet for more then 10 hours and the iPad2 would have been dead before I got to a socket.