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Originally Posted by shalym
By specifying those specs, you effectively cut out a LARGE portion of the people who are currently using e-readers. It's not a coincidence that people only started using e-readers in large numbers when it became possible to load books directly from the store to the reader. Of the many many people I know that read ebooks, only 3 of them have ever sideloaded a book from their computer using a cable, and one of them had to be walked through it by me, over the phone. I've taught classes at our local library on how to use e-readers, and demonstrated how to do this with both Kindles and Nooks (the only brands that anyone in the class used) and still, the students didn't do it. All that they wanted was to be able to download books directly to the device. Some of them didn't even have computers at home.
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Yes, and this is hindsight. Now think about it from the perspective of the moment when the manufacturers came to the decision to improve accessibility to those who have trouble side-loading, by adding hardware, software, weight and cost to their line of e-readers.
You don't see any parallels between that situation and the current situation?
You know what the difference is? Now they manufacture tablets. Do you think that if they were making tablets before they added downloading to e-ink devices they would have added it, or they would have just said 'if you want to download to your device buy our tablet'?