I'm not sure the 17 percent figure is reliable, but this would be enough to explain it:
The Kindle 5 was released on September 6, 2012 ($70 ad-supported . . .
Amazon's upgrade of the standard Kindle was released on June 22, 2016 in both black and white colors ($80 ad-supported . . .
You can't grow the market when the base model price is increasing in real dollars, and when you throw it in your heavy full-of-illustrated-textbooks book bag, it is just as liable to screen crack as ever.
We'll eventually see durable readers cheap enough to be sold as throw-aways holding a single novel with seven year life no-recharge batteries. But we may have to wait for eInk Pearl patents to expire. Fifteen more years?
This from the OP articles suggest that all-text paper books will eventually become a niche item, almost like vinyl records:
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He, in common with most people involved with the publishing of physical books, reads on a Kindle, but afterwards buys the books he loves.
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