Sony cuts price of Reader Pocket Edition, tries to duck iPad

lol — pretty funny Brad.

Why bother spending that money and getting more than they really want or need when they can set up their own store, just as they did.

Buy Amazon? Are you high? Not even Apple has that much money sitting around. Amazon's market cap right now is around 60 billion.

I mostly agree, except I don't think there will be much of "a place for dedicated e-book readers". I've a few people rave about the readability of e-ink, but I doubt that will be a factor for long (and just as many seem to prefer LCD backlit displays -- which many of us read all day long anyway).

Ultimately, one just doesn't get much in exchange for limiting the device's functionality.

"Ultimately, one just doesn't get much in exchange for limiting the device's functionality."

What? That is the one thing that makes Apple products so easy to use and liked by so many people. Exactly by reducing funtionality to the minimum and reducing levels of technical details and issues. That is why Apple products used to "just work" (although I find that statement highly debatable in many cases).

There will be a market for dedicated reader device because a lot of people acutally do appreciate the readability of e-ink over lcd, I certainly do and never consider buying an lcd slate as reader device.
However I think the e-ink technology will improve a lot, becoming compatible to what lcd's can do today. Look at notion ink's hybrid screen or the Mirasol technology, both gonna hit the market later this year.

And although you are probably not interested, there is a huge difference between working on LCD screen the whole day and sitting down to read a book on the same screen. While reading you keep your eyes fixed on the screen, you allow far less breaks. When typing to regularly peak on the keyboard or some notes or talk to your colleagues or even look out of the window, which you don't do when you are caught in the story of a book.

T.

Exactly. iphone and touch apps work on the ipad, there's a run of new and updated ipads being approved as we speak. Kindle for iphone is already there and an ipad version is very very likely.

Not to mention that the rumors are just that,rumors. half of them aren't true anymore than the one about Steve Jobs sending someone an email just last week promising that there will be blu-ray in all new computers. and even if the ones that are true, as soon as opening day sales come out and they see high 5 to 6 figures, they will be begging Apple to close the deals.

Just so long as the kindle app doesn't get removed for "duplicating functionality." Apple has retroactively removed apps in the past, and if they think Amazon is cutting into their revenue stream, they'll definitely do it again.