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Originally Posted by Canuck_in_Japan
Ok i haven't followed this thread very closely. What is it about this reader that makes it a thousand dollars? Is there some sort of special technology? Could they not just make a reader 3 times the size of a T3 for 3 times the price?
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It's not like adding a little more dough to make a bigger pizza. You need a different design and a different manufacturing process to make the bigger screen, and there is no economy of scale. Yet.
Also, I don't know if eink suffers in the same way early LCD display tech did, but in that case, defects on larger panels were much more likely, so usable yields were much lower, further raising costs.