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Originally Posted by Liviu_5
It is clear that reading hardware is improving by leaps and bounds with all these advances in miniaturization, so I think that the e-book market is bound to increase. The way I see it however is that hardware follows content, which then gives rise to more content and so on, and that's the crux of the matter here.
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I have to respectfully disagree here, Liview_5. I don't think that the hardware follows the content. If that were the case, we wouldn't have things like the venerable EBookWise 1150, or the more recent bloom of e-ink devices, because there's not all that much content. There certainly wasn't back when RocketBook was failing to launch, in fact that's a large part of why it didn't make that much of a splash.
I think that the hardware people have been waiting for content, and the content people have been waiting for hardware (or at least using its lack as an excuse to hold back).
I also disagree on the multifunction device, but that's largely a matter of user preference. Though, I will say that if a multifunction device that people want, from which they can also read were the ticket, then the Palm would have revolutionized the e-reading industry.
I expect that historians will decide that it did have a significant impact, but not a complete revolution.
Just my two bits.
