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Originally Posted by Rizla
I think what you meant was not market size, but available market-share. It comes back to dominance of the market by a single product. Obviously Germany and France, etc, are huge markets, and yet smaller companies can thrive there. The difference between Europe and the US is that a single company is not yet dominant there, thus allowing smaller companies to introduce innovative products.
The UK is an exception where amazon is utterly dominant and their is no available market-share.
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No, I think fjtorres and QuantumIguana mean market size, not market share. The market for e-ink readers, and LCD tablets, is not the same as the market for Android e-ink tablets with Bluetooth functionality that can also act as a monitor. That's a specialized use case and most people don't need a device that meets it.
It's a very small market, arguably so small that the overseas manufacturers, in conjunction with gray-market imports, have basically covered the entire market.
Not enough people want one; if they did the devices would be more widespread, less expensive, and regularly imported to the US. Amazon would probably release one.
It's just not logical to blame this on Amazon.