BN also put out a new eink ereader just a few months ago. I don't pretend to like BN, due to their decisions with how their handling Nook, but they are still there.
And i would certainly hope the over all price for ereaders has gone down. However, given the currently available devices, their price range and feature set, and how the Oasis compares to them, Amazon has clearly driven the price up. The Oasis, hardware wise, is nothing really innovative. The screen is the same as previous Kindles. They added lights. They changed the outside. And they made the cover fancy and mandatory.
Oh, and my Kobo H2O has been stable as a rock. Despite my tinkering with the firmware in unofficial ways.
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