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Originally Posted by brudigia
I personally believe that there is a killing application which very few see : schools. If ereaders shall make it into schools, as textbooks an avalanche will follow, and all the problems above will disappear, most likely.
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It's not that people don't see it... it's that textbook publishers have fought hardest of all to avoid that day, as it would be even more disrupting to their system (and their profit margins) than in literary publishing. But plenty of people, parents especially, would love to see an electronic device replace those scores of pounds of books their children are forced to strain their backs lugging around.
For these kids, affordable laptops are the only "killer" hardware they need... dedicated readers would be nice, but laptops already have color, and are multi-function, and flexibility is always big with kids. Introduce them to a Zinio-type app for magazines, and include some e-book reading SW, and they're good.