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Originally Posted by fjtorres
As for competition for Amazon... Well, what you see is what you'll get for a while. Avid readers are already committed to Amazon or Nook--Kobo is an afterthought, and Google trickling--
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Last I heard, Kobo has much larger market share than Nook, at least worldwide (which makes sense, I suppose, heh). Apparently Kobo even surpasses Amazon in some markets. Surprised me to hear it, actually. They seem to be pretty serious about new device development, and I suspect we may see them gain a bit of state-side visibility over the next few years.
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Edit: Try this - no wifi, no touch, 512Mb storage, microsd slot. 2AAA Batteries for power. Two ports: USB and a card-edge dock connector.
The proprietary connector docks at a Redbox style kiosk. You dock it, pick the books you want, swipe the credit/debit card associated with the device's registered account and the books are zapped onboard. The DRM'ed files use eReader style encryption for commercial files so they can be copied out to other devices. For gift card or cash transactions the files would be tied to the device serial number on the back and in ROM.
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I like that concept. I cant imagine including an sd slot, though, since that's dying in current devices as it is.