Thread: Library E-Book Lending Poses Rising Problem for Publishing Industry
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Old 07-30-2019, 09:12 PM   #86
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Originally Posted by leebase View Post
Not to mention....the deed was done. The Kindle business was established off of the value proposition of $9.99 NYT's Best Sellers making a $400 dedicated reader device something people would buy.

By the time all of this shook out, the eInk tech was much cheaper and no longer needed to be subsidized by losing money on the best sellers.

The fact that Amazon no longer needs to lose money to sell ebooks....and doesn't have to compete on price after buying up the lionshare of the market....it's just another day in the Amazon world.
The other thing to consider is non-eink screen tech. LCD and OLED have gotten much better, even more so than the small incremental improvements on eink. Phones have gotten big enough to be perfectly fine as go-to reading device. Not to mention tablets. More ebooks are consumed on non-eink than on eink.
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