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My takeaway from the OP article is that monochrome eReaders are probably doomed because, in 3-5 years, maybe sooner, stable color tablets will be cheaper. Then, I thought that coming in.
What if the price of manufacturing for eInk Pearl goes down just as quickly as for color LCD tablets? I'm afraid that won't matter, just as when black and white film processing became more expensive than color because the high volume low price outfits didn't even offer black and white any more.
Now, most (not all) eInk readers are repairable, so there should be a lot of used eInk units around for decades -- maybe centuries! But I can only use them on a regular basis so long as the infrastructure such as Overdrive, and the calibre Fetch News feature, continues to support it. If the infrastructure is there, I will have no problem with an antique.
It's also always possible that something will come along so that I will actually want a tablet. If it wasn't for the internet, our Apple IIGS, now in the basement, might still be in use.
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