Thread: Slow death of Kindle?
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Old Yesterday, 08:44 AM   #82
cellaris
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Device: Kindle, Kobo, PocketBook, Tolino, Onyx Boox, Bigme.
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Mostly local shops only had Kindles. Argos then added Kobo. Very recently one has Pocketbook. Mainstream media only mentions Kindle. Any books I've read mentioning an ereader mention a Kindle. I saw a Sony in a shop once. A short-lived gadget shop in Dublin just before the Kindle was released in Europe.

Amazon has over 90% of English Ebook sales worldwide and over 80% of paper based book online sales in USA.

I didn't even know about Kobo till about 2017, despite researching eink in 2007 and reading Gadget sites.

In mainstream news you'd think only Apple, Samsung, Google, Microsoft and Amazon, Nintendo and Sony exist.

So how would an ordinary consumer know that Kobo, Onyx-Boox, Pocketbook or Meebook exists?
And at the end of 2025, will we still be in the same situation, or do you think things will have changed?
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