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Originally Posted by yvanleterrible
An e-reader is too expensive to be a toy, they won't buy it unless it's required for a higher purpose
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So ingoning the bells and whistles theme - I agree, not for discussion here. What was the higher purpose of the PDA (a $200 diary/phonebook for most buyers) or the higher purpose of the iPod?
I agree about the additction of novels being a reason, but as people spend more (too much!) time working, and part of their work could involve media review (blogs, news, corporate intranets, journals) document review (procedures, proposals, whitepapers, essays) as well as traditional manuals, texts, handbooks et al - doesn't such a reader suddenly have expanded uses beyond traditional tomes that would or could be compelling?