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Originally Posted by RobertJSawyer
My guess is that the Nia is NOT principally intended for the consumer market, but rather was developed as a low-cost item to meet a bidding requirement for a big educational-sector contract -- perhaps in Canada, perhaps in Japan, perhaps in the US, perhaps in the EU. Whatever retail-channel sales there will be I'd guess are incidental.
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I think it's so there's a low-end Kobo that can sell for $60 or $70 (when on sale) that can compete with the Kindle Basic in price. Its close sibling, the Tolino Page 2, often sells very cheaply in Europe. "Developing" the Kobo Nia was basically rebranding the Page 2 hardware and loading Kobo firmware on it instead of Tolino firmware.
Is there really an educational market for e-Readers now? I thought that probably went away a few years ago when tablets got cheap.