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Originally Posted by fjtorres
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. |
Those are very high numbers. 23-25 million? I wonder how many are Kindle owners just upgrading. Could be the same 25 million people buying Kindles over and over again. Or they expect international sales to skyrocket in 2012. Or prices to drop to dollar store levels.
How many people in the US read? We must be nearing literacy capacity.