Jason, please step back and take a refresher course in economics. The kindle and iPad/andriod tablets are not subsutute products. If amazon does manage to squeeze out all of the competition you will see the price of the kindle hold or perhaps rise slightly.
The war is not for the hardware! The battle is for the sale of ebooks. An andriod tablet running a kindle app only benefits amazon's ebook platform.
There is clearly a market for dedicated ebook readers. How big is it I have no idea, but given the fact that both amazon and barns and noble are selling hardware at what appear to be very low margins would sugguest it is of a reasonable size. If there were no market for a dedicated device I think we would see one if not both drop out of the hardware game and sell ebooks via there iOS, PC, MAC and Android software.
The relative lack of buzz surrounding iBook sales further indicates to me that amazon and barns and noble are on to sometime with dedicated readers. As I have said before when I want to read I do not want the distraction and temptation of a multi-purpose device.
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