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Originally Posted by DMcCunney
<blink> Prove it.
(You may well be right, but what evidence supports that conclusion?)
That "small minority of consumers" is a large enough market to keep Amazon, Sony. and several other manufacturers busy trying to supply and dominate it...
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Took a few years for the market to gain any ground too...I know quite a few folks who were surprised at the popularity of ebook readers today because they figured they died off almost a decade ago (which they sort of did). Most likely, companies are either looking for easy margins (which doesn't seem likely if e-ink/pvi is ripping everyone off), or they're looking for future commodity devices that will overtake phones and perhaps some computer markets for casual media consumption (until folding/rolling screens are mastered, phones have a display constraint that is largely remedied in an ebook reader-sized device).