I was reading this article earlier:
http://blog.the-ebook-reader.com/201...tablet-for-35/
It's main subject is using a Nook STR as an e-ink tablet, but it states at the start that:
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E Ink ebook readers have been on the decline for the past couple of years, and innovation has slowed to a crawl thanks to Amazon’s utter dominance of the ebook market.
If you happen to live in Europe or parts of Asia there are lots of choices for ebook readers, but in the United States the evolution of ereaders not named Kindle has come to a virtual standstill.
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It seems true to me. There are a lot more different brands of e-readers in Europe and Asia. Even Sony pulled out of America.
In addition, not only are there more brands of readers, but those e-readers demonstrate more innovation than we are seeing in the American market. I am thinking particularly of e-readers that use an open Android OS, but also larger screens.
As it stands in America, it's pretty much 6" readers with a closed OS. This seems a shame to me. I would like to have a large e-ink e-reader that could double as an e-ink monitor that I could access via a PC and / or control via a keyboard. But in North America, we are going backwards. To access anything innovative, I would have to ship from Europe or Asia. It seems the market is reducing our choices, not increasing them. I blame Amazon's almost total monopoly for this situation.