Wouldn't it be funny if Steve Jobs' collusion with the Big 6 or whoever the hell they are served not to kill the Kindle and delay eBooks whilst aging publishing execs deploy golden parachutes but rather the opposite?
A price war on e-ink devices threatens to bring them down to a price point where they become like cell phones -- ubiquitous and the defacto way to read a book. To stretch a (perhaps already over-stretched) analogy, think $19.95 starter phones versus "smart phones" -- there are a lot of folks who just want to talk.
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