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I suppose when it comes to pricing there are a lot of different factors - remember if the device is in a saturated market a lot of manufactures sell their devices at a loss to try and get a market share/presence. With e-readers its a pretty new market - yes, I know they've been around for donkeys - but look how long its taken them to come to the uk for example, and only a few models / high street retailers at that.
I guess with time as the ereader market matures and if more companies/factories start producing the actual eink screens that all the readers use, we might actually see the price drop. Although with the current financial crisis most countries are in, it may take a while.
For my two cents, i think as sub notebooks are becoming more popular, we may possibly see a shift in ereaders moving away from say ARM processors to Atom based e-ink devices. If this happens, and as the ereader market matures, only then will we see a significant drop in the price for e-ink ereader devices.
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