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Originally Posted by Quoth
Probably a conclusion not justified by the data, even if true.
I think it's simply the sheer dominance of Amazon. Kindle ebooks are about 90% of the world English language sales. They are by orders of magnitude bigger than anyone else selling eink ereaders (Apple don't sell an ereader). Amazon don't need to make profit on ereaders either, though probably careful to make some.
People even assume ebook = kindle and ereader = kindle, like they assume PC = Windows (which it isn't, as PCs existed four or five years before IBM PC, with CP/M and a Mac is also a PC = Personal Computer. I've used about 9 OSes on PCs, not counting variations of Linux, Pet, Amiga, Atari, Apple II or Mac OS 9).
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Orders of magnitude would require at least a 100 to 1 ratio (100 Kindle ereaders for every 1 sold by all other sources). The last numbers I saw showed Amazon with an 83% share of the ereader market, Kobo with 12% and everyone else in the remaining 5%. Sadly, the prediction is that the ereader market is currently ~$350 million per year but will drop to ~$205 million by 2027.