[Philippe D.]

The ereader industry somehow faces a difficulty: where other tech industries tend to have frequent opportunities to introduce a "new version" of their products (bigger, better, and so on), ereaders, when they don't break down, tend to be rather long-lived tech items. I mean, I wouldn't want to change my reader for a new model unless the older one had broken down (which happened to me about a year ago) - there aren't enough new features for me to change.

Announcing higher resolutions is a standard marketing trick, but as we've seen here, it's unlikely to be the killing factor that makes users buy a new reader. As has been said before, ereaders are one-trick devices that typically do only one thing, but do it pretty well, and increasing their resolution doesn't really improve much on how well they are doing their job.

When last I had to choose an ereader, the DPI was absolutely not a factor for my choice. Real factors were screen size, weight, ease of use, practical aspects of the sleep cover I could buy with it. Software quality would have been an important factor, if I could have found reliable information on it. DPI? I can't see the difference from one device to the next, so, no, not a factor.