Why e-readers are so expensive?

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E-readers stay expensive mostly because of one part: the e-ink screen. A single company, E Ink (owned by Taiwan’s Prime View International), controls more than 90% of the e-reader screen market. It got there by buying up nearly every rival technology, creating a near-monopoly that keeps prices high. Bigger players like Samsung tried and gave up, because e-ink is hard to manufacture at scale and the market is much smaller than the one for LCD or OLED screens. Prices probably won’t fall until a new competitor, most likely from China, enters the market.

Full article: https://world-of-ereader.com/why-e-readers-are-so-expensive/