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Originally Posted by Sonist
Uhm, see the story below about texbooks coming to the iPad.
Check out the much larger screen size of the iPad, which is well suited to reading, while for most, the iPhone's screen is not.
Check out the book store. Yeah, it's US only, but so was the Kindle. You can load a wider variety of free e-books than you can on the Kindle.
It looks like a reader, it quacks like a reader, it is a reader.
It is also already changing the ebook market, as you can glimpse from the Macmillan/Amazon exchange.
Not giving it its own space is shortsighted, IMO.
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Based on your own argument, any random laptop also deserves its own space. You aren't using your brain. Companies have been bringing text books and eBooks to numerous multipurpose/general purpose platforms for years. MobileRead doesn't go off giving every random device a slot. Where's the OLPC slot?
Also if "most" people didn't like the iPhone sized screen, then the iPhone/iPod Touch platform wouldn't be the most used platform for reading eBooks, which it is.
You're also making a foolish assumption that iBooks is only ever coming to the iPad. That's extremely unlikely. Apple gets their media distribution to as many devices as they can, it will definitely come to iPod Touch/iPhone, and probably to Macs and maybe even PCs.
The only potential justification for slotting out the iPad separately from iPhone/iPod Touch would be that it was somehow significantly different. It's not, that's the point. Other than being larger, the OS is the same, the software only minorly different to take advantage of a larger screen.
Individual Kindle models don't even have their own forum, and the screen size is also a differentiating factor there.
Anyway why are we still talking about this? A decision was already made, didn't you notice?