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Originally Posted by Shane R
Do you believe the Kindle ecosystem needs to be reinvigorated?
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Not the ecosystem-The Kindle team.The exclusive books realm continues to expand, especially in fiction. And overall book pricing usually the lowest.
IMO what needs to happen is to get out of their own, somewhat elite heads and review forums for ideas. If that device was 8" possibly a third of us would be admiring this device(affordability is another issue). What I think they missed is low hanging fruit...It would take very little effort to offer more formatting and font options. I see opinions in favor of those options all of the time.
Len Edgerly of the Kindle Chronicles has a sort of interview with Team Kindle members out today. In it they express the driving desire for extreme lightness, small as possible form factor and a paper-like experience. To my mind that drive for small and light keeps us from larger units. I will email Jeff Bezos and the Kindle Team later today with my thoughts.
That said I am getting the Oasis