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Originally Posted by HarryT
That's largely true right now, given that that overwhelming majority of people carry a mobile phone, and a large majority of mobiles can run Mobi Reader. I suspect that most of those people don't know that they're carrying a device on which they could read, and even fewer would do so even if they did know, but the fact remains that they could, if they so wished.
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I agree, a lot of people could read on the devices they already have. But one thing that isn't being taken advantage of with all these electronic devices, is the possibility of using your device as an electronic shopping cart: Beam the file in and store it long enough to download it when you get home. Pretty much just a local version of the wireless purchasing system that Kindle uses.
File "beaming," whether by IR, WiFi, or other methods, is one of the most underused features of most electronic devices. Given a universal transfer protocol, a real market could develop.