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Originally Posted by soulfuldog
People always complain the pace of ereader evolution has slowed and there isn't much of an upgrade to new models. cedsoft is right, Amazon tried to be innovate in some way, and yet some people just want to rubbish it and say oh but it doesn't have this that or the next thing.
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Well, it seems to me, that eReaders are now at the mature product stage, The changes we will see in eReaders aren't going to be revolutionary, they are going to be evolutionary. There not only isn't a lot of demand for innovation, there probably isn't a lot of ROOM for innovation any more. At least, not enough to make major investments in R&D economically feasible.
There won't be many changes that make users feel they NEED to buy a new device. I suspect a dead battery, a broken screen, or a lost device will be the prime motivator for most new purchases. (My Sony PRS300, still works fine, and that's what 8-10 years old? It was the Sony ebook environment that caused me to stop using Sony readers, not those lovely devices themselves.)