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Originally Posted by pata
[*]Second, this device isn't competing with the Kindle Touch or Kindle Fire simple because Amazon isn't selling those Kindles in S. Korea and Kyobo isn't selling their eReader in the USA.
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The post I was responding to finished: "I wonder who'll be the first to use the display in a ebook reader available in the rest of the world?
Unlike The Digital Reader, I think people will pay more for a device with a reflective, hi-res, high speed colour display that gives weeks of battery life."
I was addressing that question.
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Kyobo is the S. Korean version of B&N (sidenote: if B&N released this device as the Nook Color+ for $260, do you think it would flop?)
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Well none of us have seen it, but given the information posted in this thread, yes I think it would flop at that price. Competing with the Fire and existing NC2, it is worse at being a tablet, and competing with the eInk readers it is worse at being a reader. Again, my question is how much of a market is there in between those two products? How many people buying a tablet would accept a poorer tablet to get some eInk like properties?
Something which was as good as eInk at reading, and as good as LCD at being a tablet could be a market changer, but this doesn't seem to be there yet.
Why would you buy this rather than a Fire/NC2/Vox? And how many other people would do the same?
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and the comparison should to to devices like the Samsung Galaxy Tab Plus or 7.7 which start at $400.
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With only 2GB of memory, no GPS, front or back camera, and so on? I don't think so.