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Originally Posted by ilovejedd
In fairness, there are plenty of "Are tablets dead?" or "Is the iPad dead?" articles despite Apple selling around 40 millions iPads a year. No idea how many Kindle Fires Amazon sells. Apart from Samsung and Apple, the only high end tablets you see nowadays are Windows 10 2-in-1s.
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That's true, but not directly applied to reading and not quoted here in these forums. I think I read Amazon supposedly outsold Samsung on tablets last year. I don't know for sure, though. Unless I can think of something to do with my Fire, I'll probably give it away (like I did my original 6" one) or sell it. But I do know that a LOT of people use tablets quite a bit. I think sales drops have more to do with a "mature" product line, no longer any reason to update every year.
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Originally Posted by ilovejedd
The thing is reading is a niche and so too, are e-ink readers. How many have watched Game of Thrones versus those who read A Song of Ice and Fire? Ditto for Harry Potter, Lord of the Rings, etc. Still a pretty large niche in any case.
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I'm the wrong one to ask on
Game of Thrones or
Harry Potter. I haven't read or watched either. I've never hear of
A Song of Ice and Fire. But I have read
Lord of the Rings three or four times and have watched it about 1½ times. Not that I didn't like the movie (though it
wasn't the book), it's just that ... I've seen it.
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Originally Posted by ilovejedd
Honestly, I'm actually more suprised that Amazon sold 20+ million e-ink readers in 2011 than I am by their current sales numbers. I expect there were a lot of non-readers who bought Kindles because price dropped to $80 and they were thinking they'll start reading more but after initial novelty had passed, the readers were just languishing inside drawers.
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I think it's that and the fact that a lot of readers who were enthralled with eReaders (like I was) bought them for friends or family, who then tried them once or twice, had zero interest in them and then put them in a drawer – until five years later (or so) when they donated to Goodwill (where I bought them all). Nearly every eReader I've bought used looks to have hardly been used, right from my first Kindle 4 (bought at a pawn shop).