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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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Possibly that the cost of the eInk screen does not allow for selling a $50 eInk device without having to make up the losses elsewhere.
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Originally Posted by leebase
Remember when some phone had an eInk screen in addition to an lcd?
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Hmm... Yota and HiSense(?), the case for an iPhone that added an eInk screen. Niche products at best and Yota recently went bankrupt.
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Originally Posted by leebase
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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Take a look at the Android eInk readers. Though many of them have antique versions of Android making finding apps a PITA. I do find that I have no issues using multiple book stores with my ereaders. Calibre is a great equalizer.
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Originally Posted by leebase
eInk devices still aren't great for pdf's. By now that use case should have been dealt with.
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As has been pointed out many times, PDF files are page oriented making them unattractive on smaller screen devices -- shrink an A4 page down to a 6" screen and it's gets a bit hard to read unless you are a devotee of zoom and pan. From some figures I once saw, PDFs have never had the sales to qualify as even a niche market for ereaders. There are large screen eInk devices which work pretty well with PDFs though you pay for that screen size. Some even have pen support and allow saving your annotations with the PDF.
As one example of how small the market for PDF compared to EPUB, the local library shows 2882 open EPUBs compared to 9 open PDFs. All 9 of those PDFs are childrens books.