Overall, it still doesn’t feel as premium as the $250 Oasis, however, dropping that model’s metal backing and physical page buttons - the latter of which is a nice luxury I do actually miss here. The new Paperwhite looks a fair bit like its predecessors at first glance, though like the Oasis before it, the bezels and display are now flush, adding to an already solid build. It’s also not hurt by the fact that the company, on the whole, produces nice e-reader hardware. That’s helped along by its overwhelming presence in the publishing industry and having one of the world’s best online billboards in its home page. Like so many things it has touched, the retail giant dominates the category. For big players, that pretty much leaves Kobo, which is still kicking, and, of course, Amazon.Īnd let’s be real - in terms of major scale and presence here in the U.S., well, that pretty much leaves Amazon. Formerly big players like Sony long ago abandoned ship, and while Barnes & Noble is ostensibly still in the Nook business, whatever glory days it might have had are long behind it. This is due, in no small part, to the fact that the competition has dwindled.
I realize this isn’t an exciting sentiment - certainly not in 2021 - but let’s face it, the pace of e-reader innovation is downright glacial compared to the rest of the industry. Honestly, not a sentence I ever expected to write. I just pulled my iPhone off my Qi charger and tossed on the new Kindle.
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