There is definitely a huge market. But someone has to put the investment in at the beginning.
Amazon did it, but on the basis of earning back the investment risk with the sales of their own eBooks.
This is the product that a conglomerate or Joint Venture of the major legacy publishers and online eBook sellers should have been developing and selling in the last two years to compete with Kindle.
A basic version of a device like a kindle that is not locked to one format or seller would be a massive boon to the sales of eBooks around the world.
Unfortunately the legacy publishers are too blinkered and incompetent to see this opportunity. They are obsessed with trying to save their old business model and attacking Amazon ot see the opportunities that are out their to actually compete.
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