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Originally Posted by GreenMonkey
I don't think price is the reason e-readers are still here to stay.
I don't think serious readers are all about giant tablet computers for reading.
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That's just fantasy speaking. There's nothing about an eInk reader that makes it "more serious" for reading than a tablet. Users will have their preferences that makes one of the other more appealing. None of it adds up to one being "for more serious" readers than the other.
People talk about how expensive the iPad is. Yet the original kindle came out at $400. The Kindle Dx at the time of the release of the iPad was only $10 cheaper.
Without the price drop, only the small percentage of folks who can't actually read comfortably on a tablet would choose an eInk reader over a similarly priced but feature packed tablet.
B&N is selling it's Color Nook like hotcakes at $250. It's an lcd tablet sold for use as a reader and is selling in the millions. If it was priced at $139, and the eInk prices stayed where they were, it'd take a huge bite of the market.
Lee