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Originally Posted by kennyc
Meh, Amazon has always skated on thin margins, it's what had made them dominant in the market....well that and exceptional customer service.  |
The tea leaf readers are reporting that they expect eink Kindle sales to be down.
Worse, eink *is* reporting a decline in monthly sales for december.
http://paidcontent.org/article/419-a...-e-readers/P0/
Mind you, the numbers they're estimating for Kindle sales are scary even at the "reduced" numbers; 23-25 milion eink and 15 million FIREs per year through 2014.
I've generally been skeptical of the IDC claims that NorthAm is 80% of the eink market, but if Kindle is indeed selling 2 million a month on average Amazon *hurting* is going to be mostly a theoretical exercise. And the content sales coming from the gadgets ought to take the sting out of the news.