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Originally Posted by Prestidigitweeze
Those results would make me feel optimistic if sales of the Kindle Fire weren't currently trouncing those of e-ink readers. There's also Amazon's Format 8 and how viable they intend it to be for e-ink.
Mobi to F8 looks like a mini-recap of computers' move from word processing to desktop publishing, just as the Cloud-based media libraries recall the shift of interest from exclusively hard-drive-stored content to that of the web.
Books are left behind in that sense, which makes me worry about the future of both dedicated reading and displays which are optimized and consciously limited for it.
On the other hand, Mirasol displays are finally here (as you well know). |
The real question is here how many will actually use the Fire for extended reading? And Amazon has just upgraded their line of e-readers. Besides, as you mentioned, display technology will move beyond LCDs quite soon.
However, the danger is that readers will become such a small minority soon (with the onslaught of media devices) that nobody does care about our needs anymore.