If interest in the Fire is waning does that mean more people are simply
buying eInk devices?
Apparently they believe (likely correctly) that most people
buying eInk devices basically just want to read books.
Not exact matches
Thus, the Kindle (2 or DX) is a great reading
device featuring
eInk, long two - week battery life, and free wireless to
buy a new book instantaneously.
student sale for such a limited
device in terms of intuitivity, when there is only one reason to
buy it - the
eink screen.
• Anyway I'm still going to
buy one when it (finally) comes to market in USA — the new
device appears to be the most polished piece of
eInk «paper» we're likely to see for years to come.
You don't have to
buy the premium tier top of the line
device to read and folks have been bitching about them not innovating at all with
eInk Kindles lately.
There are some good reasons for Amazon to stay focused on the Kindle — The Kindle Tablet can't hit the $ 100 or even the $ 200 mark, hardcore readers want dedicated eReaders, LCD can't touch
eInk when it comes to battery life or readability, 80 % of book sales are to 20 % of the people
buying books and those people want dedicated reading
devices.
Oprah Winfrey ignited a new wave of Kindle love when she devoted a show to the little
eInk gadget in late October 2008, and Amazon further cemented its dominant role with new Kindle models in early 2009 and mid-2010 and free apps that allow readers to «
buy once, read anywhere» on any computer, smartphone or handheld
device.
I enjoy my Sony, especially the great
eink screen, but I just had to do a firmware update on a PC in order to download books to the
device that I
bought from the Sony store -LRB-!).