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Originally Posted by dmaul1114
Sure.
But my point is there's a much bigger market for portable devices that can surf the net, do e-mail, watch movies, etc. etc. than their are readers.
Look at the iPhone success.
And some of those people who buy a tablet for other reasons may by some books on it too (just like some buy books with the Kindle app on the iPhone) and thus can expand the e-book market beyond tech inclined book worms.
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... err. I thought that was my point?
The iPhone might be successful against other cell phones. But how successful is it against dedicated mp3 players? And how successful will it be 5 years from now?
Will people repurchase their portable music library every year and a half when they need a cell phone until they die?
The greatest benefit of a multi-purpose device is also its greatest weakness. The moment one of its functions become obsolete... its other ones are gone as well when the update happens.
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