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Originally Posted by Sonist
So? It is very likely that a century ago the statistics were the same.
P.S. I guess you would never have been a ground-level investor in Amazon.com....  |
Again the past doesn't matter, the present does, so drop that silliness.
And no one is saying ereaders won't stick around and make money.
They can be a profitable niche product. You just seem to take offense at calling them a niche product.
Most successful products are niche products--especially electronic gadgets. Few things become mainstream like cell phones, TVs, dvd players etc. Most are things like PDAs that area niche product but generate nice profits selling to their niche.
Put ereading into a multifunction device that people want for multiple reasons and they can sell ebooks to an even large niche.
That's our point. Niche product doesn't not equal failure. It just means it's not a mainstream product.