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Originally Posted by HarryT
I think the primary lack in the Sony these days is lack of dictionary support. I know that doesnt matter for many people, but the Sony is the only mainstream bookreader not to support dictionary lookup now, and I think it's got to be hurting it, especially in the educational market.
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True, But Personally I feel that the major thing hurting E-readers in the Education market is the lack of content formatted for it, at resonable prices.
Most text for education is not avaliable in digital format. What little is, is in PDF, and that too iften DRM'd or password protected. Even The Illiad, which appears to provide a resonable PDF experience is not that great, and the price premium is huge.
If the content (Especially text books priced at $100+ each) were offered at a discounted price along with or instead of hard copy in digital format along with the reader, demand would surely increase.
Heck, forget that, Just market the Gen3 or one of the other 6'' readers along with all the classics that are in the public domain to literature students in a nice convinent package. Once they have the reader and get used to the idea and convinence of digital texts, provide them access to more current books online that they can easily download.
There is a ton of ways in which readers can be marketed and sold even in a depressed climate, you just need some imagination and the willingness to try something new. Unfortunately by and large most of the parties involved have shown a lack of both
