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Originally Posted by Steve Jordan
So, if the present dedicated devices don't optimize themselves for what might ultimately be a much larger market than text-based literature, they could easily find themselves seriously marginalized by the multifunction devices.
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What books - and eBook readers - bring to the table is exactly the fact that they are NOT multifunctional devices. By their single dimension, they focus attention in a way that is conducive to deep reading. That experience is hard to obtain on multifunctional devices.
For this reason, I think that eBook readers will not be marginalized any more than books are - particularly if the prices for the readers continue to drop, and level off sufficiently lower than the price of the multis.
I think that your observation might hold true for the higher end, larger sized devices, though.