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Originally Posted by Jmirko
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Competition in a niche market: I hope Booxtor is wrong and the market is large enough to support both models - time will tell. I think the bottleneck is PVI, they really need some competition. Failing that, higher volumes should allow manufacturing costs to come down. Having different variations of the product should increase demand and eventually conribute to lower prices. Fingers crossed, as I am not buying either one at these prices.
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It's a chicken and egg problem (which comes first, the high volume or the low price). The answer is neither; small evolutionary changes lead to the final surviving ecosystem. If there aren't enough early adopters to allow the product class to survive, then it dies away. So, there is a good chance that those holding on to their money waiting for the ultimate device at 6" reader prices are going to be disappointed.
The 6" market started at high prices (I paid $350 for my Sony PRS-505), and the prices gradually came down over time as the current products/market bootstrapped themselves. $100 6" readers didn't just show up out of the blue.