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Originally Posted by Barty
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Originally Posted by DNSB
You might want to check the total for ereader sales from their peak in 2011 at 23.1 million units to 2016 where about 7.1 million units were sold. Not only a niche market but a shrinking niche.
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What's the source for this? That seems really low. |
Not absolutely sure which site I was looking at when I read those numbers. One possibillity is the Statista site. See
Shipments of e-book readers worldwide from 2008 to 2016. Another possibility is a Pew Research report which has slightly different numbers but much the same trend.
The Pew and Statista numbers matches up quite well with numbers I've see on other sites -- unfortunately quite a few of those sites are quoting one of those two. Please note that these are dedicated ereaders. Quite a few people are now using tablets, phablets, phones, etc. as their major ereader and simply are not interested in carrying around two devices.