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Old 07-24-2008, 05:55 PM   #121
AL1432
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Originally Posted by rjnagle View Post
According to the straw poll we did at Teleread, the break rates are 10-15% for all three devices. Cybooks are a little higher, but it's still within the margin of error...we shouldn't jump to conclusions.
I meant it's significant across all three devices, rjnagle. That's unacceptably high. The technology may simply not be ready for prime time, which is not the consumer's fault, and if the manufacturers know this, they should not be offering them for sale as if there were no problem, especially at those prices. The situation would be fairer if they made the fragility issue common knowledge, and people still opted to buy them, but not if the consumer is caught unawares.
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