Thread: E Ink net sales plunged 46% in Q2 2013, is still upbeat
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Old 08-17-2013, 12:06 AM   #19
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Originally Posted by speakingtohe View Post
I'm sure you are right for the majority.

I spend at least an hour a day reading and maybe 4-5 in winter when I have more free time. Wouldn't take much of an improvement for me to buy a new ereader. Better screen, smoother page transitions, or more functional basic software. And of course there are possible advances and features that I have never dreamed of.

My first reader cost $375 + tax and it was on sale. Never regretted a penny. Now you can buy a reasonable big name reader for as little as $40. I've spent more on a meal out or a bottle of good wine.

In four years I have bought 6 ereaders, two as gifts. Out of the four I bought for myself, I bought two within the last 6 months.

I think that the novelty market may have fallen off and some have decided that they like tablets better for reading, but heavier readers (I mean people who read) are starting to notice the difference between the reader they have and the new ones coming out. I don't care for the built in light, but it sure has sold a lot of readers to people who already owned one or three, and even possessed a light. A backlight I was comfortable with would have me buying another. Or put together all or most of the features I like software wise in one package and I would buy it.

When the perfect ebook reader comes out, then I might stop buying

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New technology always starts out very expensive and then drops in price. I can remember when a VCR was right round $1000.00 and then it slowly went down til the average person could afford one. Of course then they brought out the DVD player which started out expensive and now is very cheaply priced. E-readers are just following the same trend as far as pricing I think. E-Ink does have advantages over lcd. You can read out of doors for one thing. When I do that I try to be in some shade but even in the shade if you try to read an LCD screen all you see is a greyed out screen. A dedicated reader of course can't have too many extras added or it ceases to be a dedicated reader.
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