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DiapDealer · 05-22-2014, 04:02 PM

By all means, lets just ignore the possibility that not enough Americans are interested in buying eink devices (or rather, dedicated ereaders in general) to justify further R&D. It was a niche market that got saturated. The ereader market hasn't come to a standstill in the U.S., it's just migrated to software that runs on mobile multi-function platforms. Did we really believe a handful of hardcore stand-alone ereader aficionados could sustain an entire hardware industry indefinitely--Amazon or no Amazon?

05-22-2014, 04:02 PM	#5
DiapDealer Grand Sorcerer Posts: 28,915 Karma: 207182180 Join Date: Jan 2010 Device: Nexus 7, Kindle Fire HD	By all means, lets just ignore the possibility that not enough Americans are interested in buying eink devices (or rather, dedicated ereaders in general) to justify further R&D. It was a niche market that got saturated. The ereader market hasn't come to a standstill in the U.S., it's just migrated to software that runs on mobile multi-function platforms. Did we really believe a handful of hardcore stand-alone ereader aficionados could sustain an entire hardware industry indefinitely--Amazon or no Amazon? Last edited by DiapDealer; 05-22-2014 at 04:13 PM.