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Originally Posted by krischik
How do you explain the one Kindle user a day which asks for refund in the Mobipocket forums then? Well, at least there was one user a day when the forum was still open for support requests.
Martin
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Easy.
The people posting about their ereaders online aren't the average joe's who determine a product's success in the mainstream.
Anyone posting about it online falls in the niche of tech savvy, avid readers.
The people who determine mainstream success and failure of devices are those just buying whatever is hyped/cool to own and just using it without ever really reading up on it, posting about it online etc. etc.
Again, that's the folly of this site that drives me nuts. People like US will have no impact on the future of eBooks and eReaders. We are the small, nerdy, early adopting niche. It's the joe six packs who determine success and failure.
The iPod didn't win because of the nerdy, apple fanboy early adopters. It won when it became the cool device every college kid had to have and then spread to the cool "must have" tech device for the general population. The average iPod owner knew/knows little about DRM, AAC vs. MP3 etc.
And it will be the same with eBooks. Whatever is easy to use and becomes the cool "must have" device will win regardless of company, format of the ebooks, DRM scheme etc.
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Originally Posted by krischik
True - but the iPod was released world wide. What I a saying is that when Amazon finally arrives in Europe they will have missed there window of opportunity.
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Sorry, but no. The market is barley tapped, much less saturated. Again, it's just a few million tech savvy, book worms around the world who own an eReader. It's still anyone's game.
If Amazon can make the Kindle the cool "must have" device it can take over the world market. Or someone like Apple or somone else may beat them to the punch and take over the rest of the world and the US--where again, hardly anyone has an eReader.
It's anyone's game.