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Originally Posted by CWatkinsNash
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The available ereading devices weren't being marketed in a way that people could find them or even know what they were. I'd look at the history of the devices and their marketing patterns and the resulting sales. There's a reason why Kindles became the the Kleenex of ereaders - few people knew ereading was even a "thing" until Amazon branded it. The first Kindle launched in late 2007. Sony instroduced eink the year before, but I never noticed and I imagine most other people missed it as well. Amazon already had a huge base of customers to market to directly, many of whom were already buying books.
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Thank-you. But it's too late now. The problem was I was writing under a deadline. I needed answers quickly. What I *wanted* to do was come here and ask somebody (and as you have proven, that would have worked), but I just didn't have the time.
Oh, and then someone posted a comment under the article saying I sounded like I didn't know what I was talking about. Which would have been fine except they insinuated that I'm 13 years old (I'm 42).