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Originally Posted by haertig
I can't believe the eReader market is as small as you suggest. Smaller than the cellphone market, sure, but not all that small.
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Orders of magnitude smaller than the cellphone market.
Amazon don't publish their sales figures, but the numbers seem to be around or a bit under 10 million Kindles per year, and they are clearly the market leader.
Samsung sold almost 80 million smartphones last quarter. Add in Huawei and Apple and you are at almost 200 million smartphones in the quarter, or almost 800 million in a year.
15-20 million devices sold a year is nothing to sniff at, and a market still seen as worth pursuing, but they are niche devices.