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Originally Posted by stonetools
This is geek thinking. The average consumer will most likely just shrug her shoulders and buy the upgraded version of her current eBook reader, especially if its the same price or less than the current model.
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You may be correct about this, but I don't think it has anything to do with "geek thinking" at all. More important than the fact that a lot of people here are knowledgeable about eReader tech is the fact that most people here are "heavy readers" who have an above average love for books—more so anyway than the average commuter who grabs whatever bestseller has the prettiest cover at the newsstand before catching their flight.
So the fact that their entire elibrary could be rendered useless to them in the future doesn't trouble the geek in them at all. It troubles the lover-of-books in them. Especially if they weren't "geeky" enough to even know that their library was on the line just by deciding to
get a new device. So you'd probably be better served to not obsess so much with the "geek thinking" arguments. They're not as relevant as you might think.
And besides, the fact that users here don't represent the average (e)book buyer doesn't mean anything more than "they represent a smaller portion of the (e)book buying public at large" Which in turn says nothing about whether their opinions are "right or wrong." Nor anything about whether the various decisions made by the retailers/publishers is anything other than self-serving and/or efficient (which I don't think anyone here would try to refute).
In short; the fact that retailers/publishers can safely ignore the opinions of MobileRead users and still make boatloads of cash off of people who don't care one way or the other, only makes them successful... not correct.