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Originally Posted by leebase
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
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Did you not read the rest of my post? Way to cherry pick out a part of it and be outraged. Here, I'll repeat it for you.
"That doesn't mean all serious readers would choose e-ink over a tablet computer. I'm just saying that a lot of people would choose a dedicated reader even at higher prices. People were still buying the kindle even after the ipad came out. "