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Old 08-16-2014, 05:11 PM   #272
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Originally Posted by Sil_liS View Post
It's about the money. The big companies are taking a loss, or making very little on the devices and make money on selling ebooks instead. People interested in big devices are not interested in reading ebooks on them, so the manufacturers can't take a loss on them.
Right.

I wonder if an education market tie-in could be tapped. If these could really replace paper textbooks, then that would be a masive market. But I'm sure there is some resistance to that from publishers because paper textbooks are probably very profitable.
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