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Originally Posted by Laurens
The way I see it: if the e-book market is to ever break into the mainstream, it will be because of the backing of big companies like Sony. Actually, I don't see any other company with the financial and marketing muscle that Sony has stepping into the market any time soon.
I wouldn't pin my hopes on iRex. Spec-wise their device looks great, but they are only a small startup. Maybe they'll end license their designs to bigger companies like Philips.
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I agree completely. Even if Sony doesn't do it well, e-books have so many advantages that if they bring it to the consumer in a half-way reasonable form I think it can succeed, or at least start the move to mainstream. But, oddly enough, I think we might see more e-books sold for cell phones and i-Pods than for a sophisticated and full-sized e-book reader like from Sony.
As for iRex, It's probably going to be so expensive and relatively unknown that I don't think it will make a big dent in the consumer market. I hope, though, that it does well with the corporate market and with tech geeks like us so they can continue to develop more great products.