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Originally Posted by Cinisajoy
Please reread my post. There was a non store ereader. It failed miserably.
Sony, Nook, Amazon and Kobos all have stores.
So no. It did not work. It has already been tried. Oh wait, there are some very expensive non-store ereaders. Check the Onyx and Pocketbook forums.
Here is the thing: ereaders are niche and 99% of the customers want easy.
Yes, but a tablet is not an ereader. They are two different animals.
Last year, there were over a billion tablets and smartphones. There were only 75,000,000 ereaders.
Niche man niche.
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Right. My point is that there's no reason an e-ink reader couldn't come with e-ink optimized store apps to buy books from several sources on the same device.
The market didn't go that way, since once the price dropped the competitors pulled out and cancelled their plans. I'm just wondered about what might have been.