With the public promiscuously hopping from one format to another, reports of the e-reader’s death look distinctly premature
We have barely stumbled into 2015 and already some commentators are calling time on the ebook. The analysis was provoked by Waterstones’ managing director, James Daunt, who told journalists sales of Kindle devices “disappeared” over Christmas 2014, leading to reports that the digital market had peaked and was in retreat.
But the facts tell a slightly more nuanced story: this is more a tale of the unexpected than a chronicle of a death foretold. .
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