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Originally Posted by eschwartz
Oh -- can I take it you have finally accepted that Amazon does not make a profit off of selling Kindle E-Ink devices?
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I understand your sarcastism but you'll have to believe me, there are lot of people who need a powerful eink device not just me! I am thinking that opinion on this thread are based on individual's preferences, but I take that positively, as ultimately my interest was to find out why eink is stuck, and i now have a better vision on that, it is closely related to utility and manufacturers limitation. surely it is not something like (taught) "ereaders are for reading and tablet are for browsing" or if somebody do not like 1gb ram then manufacturer do not care about that as long as he can make profit from new innovation. A poster replied that its a niche market, it feels like niche because we are comparing with ubiquitous tablet and smartphones but there are far more narrow niche products being made.
You maybe correct but without any actual proof how can anyone take "Amazon did not make profit"? if you checkout from Chinese supplier average price of 6 inch LCD screen is approx :- 10 usd (bulk order), do you think eink would be four times costlier? <- in response to your previous comment.