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Originally Posted by OtterBooks
The touchscreen thing is controversial. For some, touchscreen is a deal killer. It's not a technological evolution (Amazon could have done it by now), but a navigation design change, and one that for many is not welcome.
Maybe they're endangered, I dunno, but people wanting more than the ability to read plain text doesn't mean they want it from their dedicated device. They want it, but they want it elsewhere. Just because I want something for making phone calls, doesn't mean I want it incorporated into my shoes.
Lets not forget that e-ink is a newer technology, developed to address LCD's shortcomings. It wasn't developed for lack of being able to make an LCD reader. Amazon could have made a $400 reader (the cost of the K1) with a low powered cpu and an LCD; if they had, ebooks would be probably be dying a slow death right now instead of growing at 300% per year. Readers' medium of choice is still paper, so I don't see all those people skipping over a device that simulates that experience for one that does not. Basically, e-ink will die when reading dies, or when some new display tech can address both uses acceptably. Granted, one or both of those may happen. imo.
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I think e-ink will survive for quite some time. But the FOCUS among content sellers and distributors is clearly toward LCD. They want to distribute all reading content on ONE type screen, rather than a separate screen for reading novels only and another screen for every other type of reading (comics, magazines, web, etc.)