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Originally Posted by Alexander Turcic
In anticipation of new e-book readers emerging in 2009 (*fingers crossed*), we're considering reorganizing the forum structure for the e-book devices. The suggestion is that we move "out" of the "E-Book Devices" section and sort the device sections by vendor. Before we do so, I would like get as much feedback as possible. Thank you.
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A restructuring sounds a good idea ... but is reorganizing 'by vendor' the right thing to do? Surely this will simply encourage people to separate out into groups that use some device from some particular vendor and they will then ignore what's going on in the rest of the world.
Mobileread's great attraction and 'brand' is that it is vendor-independent, giving honest opinions and comparisons across the spectrum of mobile readers. Encouraging the separation of all those great contributors into 'tribes' based on what devices they currently use is surely not going to improve this site -- or the industry.
I'd suggest some other split ... it could be 'by screen resolution', or 'devices with WiFi', or 'those with GSM access' ... etc. That way, discussions would be based on the features that people care about, not on who makes [designs, outsources, markets] a particular brand or machine.
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