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Originally Posted by barryem
I do think that even as a niche product there are enough people using ereaders that manufacturers might find them worth making if they didn't have to compete with readers that were subsidizes by book sales. That would give us more choices. Anyway my post was really a "wouldn't it be nice" type of post. Maybe someday ...!
Barry
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We're mostly there.
Look at the prices of the readers from hardware-only vendors and compare them to Kobo and Kindle prices. Not much difference once you factor in the kindle ads.
Btw, it's not ebook sales that subsidize the low-end Kindles: it's the ads. And the ad business was created as a way to match Nook pricing, so Kindles seeded their ad business. And it's now starting to really bloom:
https://seekingalpha.com/article/423...etting-started