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Originally Posted by dmaul1114
Good. Now lets see if it explodes like the iPod did....
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Dude, what's up with this? Did you short Amazon or something?
I wanted to check your "nobody reads, the culture has changed" statement, so I did a quick search (electronic, not paper.) Came up with this survey, titled "Fiction Reading Increases for Adults," comparing American reading habits since '82:
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/12/books/12reading.html
It appears that readership fluctuates. Now take population expansion into consideration, and you'll likely end-up with net gain of readers.
If you don't like your e-reader, fine. Most users apparently like theirs. Sales are increasing rapidly enough, to merit notice, and to send agents and publishers on the war-path over e-rights.
You keep making statements about what YOU need (cheap, color, movies, annotations, etc..) Frankly, nobody really cares. What matters is that there is demand, and there appears to be a market trend toward e-readers. A lot of hardware seems to be coming out soon, some from major players. The sales projections are impressive. Niche or not, it seems to be coming. And this is all that matters to the world at large.