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Originally Posted by davidfor
The 7.8" Kobo Aura ONE had most of that and is two years older than the 8" Forma. So, Amazon have had a lot longer to see the impact of the larger devices. That makes me feel like they don't consider it important. But, it did take them nearly five years to put out a device to compete with Kobo's 6.8" devices, so maybe they are still a couple of years away from the larger devices.
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That is a good point. It seems like they've had plenty of time and awareness to bring out a larger sized reader. Amazon's pretty savvy about making and selling things at proper price point, and when they do that, they usually focus on whatever will sell in large volume. One wonders if maybe they decided things beyond a certain price point (large e-readers???) wouldn't sell well enough to recoup the development cost, so they gave up on it. Look at their Fire devices, they've gone for quantity and rock-bottom price over quality (by quality I mean things like higher quality, better resolution screens).