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Originally Posted by DMcCunney
I don't see dedicated readers reaching the $99 price point (at least, not with decent sized eInk displays) any time soon, if ever.
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Then ebook readers would be the first consumer electronics technology to ever NOT plummet in price (or rise in features) over time. It would be redundant to list various tech products that cost 1/10th or 1/1000th or 1/1000th of what they cost when the technology was just emerging, so I'll just generalize and say-- everything. The time will come (and within 5 to 10 years) when not only will you get ebook readers with eInk style or better displays for not only $99 but for $49, and you'll find clearances of low-end, primitive older models (but still better than the mainstream models of today) for ten or twenty bucks as the geeks.com "1daydeal."
Last week I bought a few MP3 players for ten bucks each on sale. They had a mere 2 GB of flash memory, though. Which doesn't compare to the 32 megabytes of memory I had on my first $150 MP3 player, or course:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rio_PMP300
The ebook readers we are using today are the same ones people will be pointing at and laughing about 10 years from now.