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Originally Posted by JSWolf
Amazon is like Sony. They both tried something that didn;t work and have given up on it. Sony tried front lighting with the PRS-700 and it was a failure. So no more front light. Amazon tried a larger screen Kindle wit the Kindle DX and that failed so no more larger than 6" screen Kindles.
It seems only one failure is enough to stop trying new things.
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Amazon and Sony and pretty much everyone else has had lots of failures and they still try new things. Since they failed with the DX they've tried and failed with the Fire Phone and a variety of other things and they're still trying new things. Amazon sure hasn't slowed down. I don't know as much about Sony but my guess is they haven't either.
Companies are in business to make money and they try things and if they work they keep going with them. If they fail they either learn the lesson that offers or, now and then, try again.
No new Fire Phones, and as a Fire Phone owner I think that's as it should be, but now Amazon has phones with special offers with heavily discounted prices. So this is a case where they learned their lesson and also tried something else. Maybe they'll do something like that with the DX.
I have no interest in a larger reader but I just today got a chance to help set up someone's Kobo Aura HD which is my first exposure to larger ereaders. I don't want one that large but I can see the attraction. It's a nice device.
Barry