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Originally Posted by Pajamaman
You're right, and it's a pity they are taking so long to come to market en masse. Fortunately we are finally seeing more companies using larger screens in their devices. But prices will only drop if they are made easily available to people so that they will buy them. And I think they would. For example, the Kobo Aura One was sold out for a while. And that's without the Amazon store on-board. I wonder why Kobo doesn't position its products in stores in the USA. Not wishing to be repetitive, but I can only suppose they don't feel they can compete against Amazon and it's online store. Presumably this is why Sony dropped out. Pity. I think diversity is good for competition and innovation. Oh well. It seems different sized screens will remain an obscure product unknown among the vast majority of US buyers, and as such the prices will remain high. C'est la vie.
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Kobo had a partnership with Borders when they 1st came out. That was probably less than a year before Borders went under. They have/had some independent bookstores and general retailers that have carried some of their devices over the years, but it's never seem to stick in the U.S. They seem to have given up there and focused a little place called the rest of the world
where Amazon isn't quite as entrenched.