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Originally Posted by tubemonkey
So why haven't they removed that feature from ereaders already?
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Give it time. The kindle lost its speakers with new generations and the DX was left with no other generations.
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Originally Posted by theinfamousj
The answer to this is: So that the book sellers who currently subsidize the cost of eReaders (Amazon, B+N, Kobo, Sony) can make money from your in-device purchases at their store.
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How does the added hardware cost compare to the subsidy, and how does it compare to the extra money that they made from in-device purchases vs. side-loading?
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Originally Posted by theinfamousj
I also think you are getting caught up in the tautology of the term eReader. People will surely develop color eInk (and perhaps faster refresh rates, microphones, and speakers though those are very heavy battery drains) and the resultant device won't be allowed to be legally defined as an eReader. So bloody what? Call it a kerfuffle for all you want, so long as I can buy it.
eReader companies haven't forced themselves to produce just eReaders, they stray all the time. Kobo Vox, Nook Color, Kindle Fire, etc. Their marketing terminology has little to do with the legal status of those devices.
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Color eink was developed years ago and instead of using it for eink e-readers the manufacturers from this coalition preferred to manufacture LCD devices. Do the speakers drain the battery more than the light that was added to the devices?
And they, or others would market this future color eink device as what? The success of a device depends on marketing so if they can't market it as a device used primarily for reading, then what would it be marketed as?