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Originally Posted by eschwartz
You can continue to reiterate that "lots of people need a powerful eink device", but you are still wrong. Very few people need one, which is why only a handful of small manufacturers make them -- or at least, make a device that superficially resembles them. Manufacturers to whom it is big business to see 500-1000 devices; in contrast, Amazon sells millions of Kindles.
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I am not commenting on other items. But I have one message:- any form of reading is ultimately same action, whether you are reading a chapter in literature or online articles, I may read 10 articles in a stretch, the word count is going to be the same, eyes will suffer the same.
But I understand that overall bookworms tends to eat more text per day than average web surfer will do. So you are correct that market demand is well below, but did I say anywhere, such new innovation have to be made available for cheap? iPhone is not cheap, Yotaphone has tried for whatever high price would fit to their business, i didn't buy it because overall this wasn't workable for me.
Other thing is market demand may not always be predetermined, it is often seen you generate market demand by rolling out new innovative products. For whatever reasons eink leaders were slow on innovation and that further curtailed demand, a cyclic chain.
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Originally Posted by dickloraine
If you just want to read long articles on your reader, why not just use pocket (with kobo) or send to kindle (for the kindle)? That even makes the article better to read.
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that would make it just like reading eBooks, Mostly I am not reading for pleasure but it is like adventurous reading, I browse for interesting pieces or shared experience or maybe some research related stuff, I wouldn't know in advance where to find them.