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I would sooner go back to paper books than read on an LCD tablet. I certainly do worry about the declining market share: e-ink readers are specialty items for heavy readers, and there are a limited number of heavy readers in the world! It could be that most people who would want an e-ink reader already have one (at least in the US?).
But I'm encouraged that Amazon and others are continuing to introduce new models every year. Sure, we don't have color e-ink, but now we have front-lit e-ink. That's pretty new. Amazon knows that people who buy e-ink readers buy a lot of BOOKS. So they will continue to support the market. And although I have a Kindle, I hope to see Kobo and others in the marketplace for a long time, because competition feeds innovation.
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