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Originally Posted by leebase
Now now....just because some of us have an eReader we like...wasn't it better when there was more choice? I mean, it's one thing for Sony to leave the business...but who took their place?
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No one. Normal shake-down in a new industry. Sony never did well at low-end competition — they shut down a lot of their computer and device lines at the same time they shut down eReaders. Their specialty is higher margins, kind of like Apple.
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Originally Posted by leebase
And while the original $400 price of a Kindle has come way down....how come there isn't a pretty nice $49 eInk device or even $25?
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No real competition. Amazon basically has the market sewn up (especially in the U.S. where most of the money is).
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Remember when some phone had an eInk screen in addition to an lcd?
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You mean like up until April of this year, when Yota went bankrupt?
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We seem to have these wonderful "reflected light" screens in less places than before.
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Really? — because I never did see a lot of them "in the wild." EReaders always were a niche product. Where are you getting your statistics?
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Why isn't there an eInk reader that is agnostic and works with multiple book stores like an iPad or an Android tablet?
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There are. Search for Android e-Ink readers.
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eInk devices still aren't great for pdf's. By now that use case should have been dealt with.
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That wasn't what they were designed for — at least not for most standard eBook readers (where the lion's share of the market is). And the bigger eInk screen eReaders do fairly well at PDF. (Never been much of an issue for me.)
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Originally Posted by leebase
And what of those business oriented ones with the cool pen markup etc?
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They're still there. More of a niche market than standard eReaders. These DO handle PDFs pretty well.
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Not only did none of these pan out....it seems like no one even cares or remembers how bright the future seemed to be....ten years ago
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I'm happy with the current status of eInk eReaders (as are many who use them). Since you don't use them, why is this a concern for you?