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I'd like to see a front lit mini, but with smaller profit margins, a niche dedicated e-ink reader market, the proliferation of 5.0" and larger cellphones and phablets with ever larger batteries... I have my doubts. I get the whole display quality/lower power issue with e-ink for reading -I can't put up with reading for very long on my tablets, but there is a lot on the other side of the argument from carrying only one device, to already having the device as the larger phones become more common, to being able to do more with it and having a choice of several reading apps designed for several distribution channels and totally independent reading apps and so on.
I mostly have a hard time wrapping my head around the idea of them introducing a lower cost improved front lit unit that would compete with their own 6" model... As I recall, and I may be wrong, the minis didn't really take off until after Kobo discounted them...
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