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Originally Posted by jhowell
It has occurred to me that the current management of Amazon may no longer have the interest in selling a reading device at a loss and making it up in the sale of books when they can just sell the books and let customers read them on phones and tablets.
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It’s possible, however as long as Apple and Google demand their pound of flesh for every book bought via an app on their platform, I’d argue Amazon still has an incentive to offer a device for which they control the distribution.
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Originally Posted by jhowell
True. Even the new kindles are largely speculation. The only description in the FCC paperwork is “Electronic Display Device” and that could refer to a new Echo Show Alexa device. |
The terminology is vague enough indeed. Could the newly released Fire HD tablet fit the bill as well? The leak of the new Kindle Basic seemed legit, but perhaps this will be the only Kindle update this year, if any.