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Originally Posted by OtterBooks
They don't think they're being used only for books, they know it.
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If they is Amazon, they certainly know exactly how much money is being spent, at Amazon.com,. on newspapers, and how much on books, for any given device. And they know how much content is being sent to Kindle.com addresses. But how do we know?
You might say that, just from reading MobileRead, the vast majority are using eReaders to consume fiction. But how do we know MobileRead is typical?
I say this with a little bias since I am a highly text-oriented news junkie.
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Originally Posted by robko
I think the biggest factor that will likely allow e-ink readers to survive (maybe only as a niche market, but survive nonetheless) is the fact that book content being produced for the devices replacing it is in a format (largely) that works on them.
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I buy this. Even if the newest EPUB and Kindle formats won't work on older devices, it probably will cost little to keep on providing them with simplified versions. This is a big contrast to what happened, say, with 8-tracks, where it would have cost a lot to manufacturer tiny batches of product and then distribute to thousands of physical stores.