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Originally Posted by DiapDealer
"Store that retools to help encourage the sale of physical books, does in fact sell less ereading devices (and more pbooks). Film at eleven."
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Yes...and no. Were kindle readers still in demand, they should still sell. Amazon will never release numbers and I doubt they will even release "numberless graphs" that they used to show. Cuz sales are down. Can't prove it. But it's fairly obvious that tablets and smartphones have taken all the steam out of the eInk market.
The "people buy their Kindles from Amazon" also doesn't hold water. Watersons USED to sell a lot of kindles...now they sell almost none even though they are still offered. That speaks SOME to the fate of eInk readers.
So does Sony getting out of the business and all the many other clear signs that the eInk reader market has seen it's day in the sun. They may not yet be in the VCR player category just yet, but it's a foregone conclusion.
That the book store has revamped itself and revived the selling of physical books is not directly related to the slow down in sales of kindle readers. That surely falls into you "they worked to sell more pb and they did, fill at 11"