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Originally Posted by Rizla
It's not that Amazon couldn't sell the DX. They sold the DX alright. But they withdrew the product and instead focused on the size with the biggest margin--i.e. the 6" reader. They preferred to maximize returns rather than offer choice.
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It's fairly widely speculated though that the DX was more or less a failure for them. It took years to sell through their stock of DX Graphite's (approx 3 years) and many discounted sales to achieve that. It has to at the very least make them and other manufacturers cautious about introducing new large screen models that will require pricing in direct competition with tablets.
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That's fine, but the problem is no other vendor dare enter the market to offer anything else because of Amazon's virtual monopoly. They have written off the American market.
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This does seem to be the case. Of course we don't know if Dulin's and others who used to offer Onyx & Pocketbook readers (among other brands) stopped due to lack of sales or if there were other factors (perhaps Dulin will comment). I'm sure Onyx, Pocketbook, Bookeen, etc. would still be happy to sell to a US seller if one were to want to sell their product, and of couse US customers can buy some of them from overseas and have them shipped. Futher to your point though it also appears Kobo, while not withdrawing from the US market, has decided to just coast along in the US market and not try very hard to compete with Amazon.