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Originally Posted by HarryT
They've sold 60 devices. I'm sure you'd agree that these are numbers that wouldn't interest a company like Amazon?
You say that hard core ereaders want a large screen, but I don't actually think that's true. Most hard core readers probably spend most of their time reading fiction, and that seems best served on a screen around the 6-7" size range, for reasons of portability. Your hard core reader always wants to have the reading device with them, and a 13" device isn't something you can slip into a jacket pocket or a woman's handbag.
Sure there's a market for large-screen devices, but I think it's primarily a market for large-screen colour devices, for things like magazines. I read a lot of academic PDFs and find my 9.7" iPad the perfect size for that.
The market for large-screen grey-scale devices definitely exists, but it is, to my mind, too small to be of interest to a company like Amazon.
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I had a Kindle DX and loved it until battery issues killed it. I would really like 7" to 9.7", especially if they could make it lighter than the old Kindle DX. If Amazon puts out a Voyage quality device in this size range I will probably buy it the same day.The advantages of:
1) More text on each page
2) Less page turns
3) better display of graphics
4) bigger screens just feel premium...The difference between a Hardback and a mass market paperback
To me the 13" size is too much. If portability became an issue I would just carry my Voyage.