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Originally Posted by John F
I there is a viable market for B&W ereaders, I would guess that they will continue to be made.
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Unfortunately many companies are run by accountants and marketing (crayon dept). Accountants should only be counting the money and analysing cost/sales/profits/overheads, not running a company.
Marketing are notorious at surveys that are badly designed and tell them what they want to hear and being driven by their own prejudices and preferences rather than what's logical or sensible.
See HP, Nokia (an accountant took over in 2003), Apple, IBM, Oracle, Adobe and Microsoft.
Or Sony hardware/SW products crippled by them becoming a media company (took over EMI and movies etc). Minidisc crippled (multiple ways), CD root kits, Magicgate DRM on memory sticks, Linux removed from Playstation, the PRS ereaders scrapped because they couldn't run a bookstore, the walled garden DPT eink PDF readers. Crippled firewire on some Sony Camcorders.
Amazon KFX and Send To Kindle and how PDFs work on Scribe. Deletion of thumbnails and sideloaded ebooks. Amazon blocking KU/KDP-Slect authors/publishers because someone ELSE has pirated the ebooks!
Most of it is stupidity, not malice, greed or real security.
Companies are only as smart as the stupidest person that's a manager for what ever it is. In most big companies people get promoted one step more than they should, or on the basis of politics, patronage, blackmail or nepotiism, not on merit.