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Old 01-29-2010, 04:40 PM   #180
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Originally Posted by kovidgoyal View Post
What will e-books do for the iPad

E-books and e-reading in general are much bigger phenomena than the iPad and they will take over people's reading habits, even if Apple never existed.

IMO, the iPad is in far greater need of a reason for existence, than e-books.
Agreed... Kinda. It's a two way street, many people have been looking at e-readers recently and will be thrilled that the iPad can operate as an e-reader so will buy one.

At the same time, others will simply be buying this device for games, comics, internet, video or so they can use it to read color cookbooks. Those people will suddenly have an e-reader device and may begin to purchase e-books.

Beneficial both ways. I am particularly looking forward to how companies like Amazon will respond to a $500 color touch screen tablet with the itunes stores distribution power behind it. Products like the Kindle DX (which I own) are effectively dead in the water to all except the most hardcore readers who either hate apple or hate LED backlit screens.
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