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Originally Posted by SteveEisenberg
Now here is a question which, unlike the one raised by the thread title, can actually be answered without waiting until 2018.
Re the OP, I have another unanswerable question -- when will you be able to buy a decent ePub knockoff of the basic Kindle at Poundland (where everything is £1), or, at least, fiveBelow (maximum price US$5)? If someone can answer that, I'm thinking we'll then know when eBooks will not just outsell print, but do so by such a decisive margin as to put immersive reading p-books on a steep and permanent downward spiral.
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I am thinking never if by specifying kindle you mean a knockoff device with an eink screen that will allow people to buy from Amazon the same as kindle.
Or right possibly now as so many people have devices that allow them to install the kindle app with no additional expense.
So maybe the only thing stopping a lot of people from laying out cash for ebooks is that they still prefer paper. A cheap kindle knockoff will be unlikely to change that.
Of course kindle knockoffs might just start showing up in Dollar stores next week, and all the bargain hunters will start madly buying ebooks just because they got a bargain ereader. Who knows.
Helen