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Originally Posted by Synamon
I'm not sure why any of this is a surprise to people, e-ink readers are a niche and will eventually reach saturation and the sales growth will stop. I don't think that means e-ink will disappear, it's still the best technology for that niche and someone will continue to make replacements, probably Amazon in order to maintain their dominance in ebooks.
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+1. I think we're reaching the point where a lot of avid readers already have e-ink devices. The current price point of e-ink readers (particularly the Kindle) has lowered barrier to entry that folks who were on the fence before have probably bought one by now.
For anyone who already has an e-ink reader with Pearl display, what's the incentive to upgrade? I'm still using a PRS-350 and it still serves my needs very well. Eventually, we'll just see people buying e-ink readers to replace broken old readers but I doubt we'll see the tremendous growth we've seen the past couple of years since the introduction of the Kindle. Say what you want against Amazon but there's no questioning they brought e-ink readers and ebooks to the mainstream consciousness.