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Originally Posted by binaryhermit
In the last 6 months or so, there's been a new model from Amazon and Nook, possibly along with others? As long as there are new models being developed by the big players, I dare say the ebook reader isn't dead yet.
Decllning on the other hand...
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Despite eink technology having reached pretty much a developmental dead end some time ago and be in decline, they will keep their ereaders going as long as possible. They and their hangers on will extoll their virtues as devices for "real" readers, and continue to parrot misleading memes to the uniformed such as "no light shining in your eyes".
If they don't push their devices, and eink ereaders become like the carthorses of the transportation world (as they will), it would seem to me they will lose their point of differentiation and find themselves in an already pretty much saturated LCD and OLED display market battling the likes of Samsung, Apple, Microsoft, etc. And then further battle with those companies as they bring new display technologies to the market.