Amazon Kindle e-readers are bought out in all places, everywhere in the world. The one fashions left to buy are the Kindle Scribe, Kindle Children and varied costly bundles. Amazon is gearing up for a bevy of recent merchandise, which would be the twelfth era. The all-new Kindle Primary leaked on a Spanish e-commerce web site a number of weeks in the past. There have been FCC submittings final month for 2 different e-paper gadgets, doubtless the 2024 mannequin of the Kindle Paperwhite and Kindle Paperwhite Signature version. New info has come to gentle, which factors to an October sixteenth launch date.
Many individuals who work in retail have disclosed to Good e-Reader that their system has new Kindles. They solely have mannequin numbers, and all state that they are going to be accessible to promote on-line and in-store on October sixteenth. All of them instructed me a number of Kindles could be popping out concurrently. That is doubtless why Amazon and their retail companions are having a fireplace sale with the present era merchandise. Goal within the US sells Kindle e-readers for half-off at its bodily places, doubtless attempting to dump all remaining inventory.
There was a lot hypothesis on-line from varied media retailers that Amazon may abandon the Kindle and give attention to Fireplace TV, Fireplace Tablets and different multimedia merchandise. It is because the media panorama has dramatically modified for the reason that creation of the Kindle. Manga, magazines, and newspapers have all moved to digital, and all look higher on a color display screen, like a Fireplace Pill, than a black and white Kindle. Amazon used to have a stranglehold on the e-book market once they bought them at a loss to drive Kindle adoption, however now, all their competitors, akin to Google Play Books, Kobo, and Barnes and Noble, all cost the identical value.
This is sensible, and I can see why individuals assume this fashion. Amazon is spending billions of {dollars} on their Prime originals, akin to Rings of Energy. Most media firms now supply Prime Video Channels, and none might be considered on a Kindle; solely Fireplace Tablets, Fireplace TV or the Prime Video app might be considered on streaming containers akin to Apple TV. Amazon primarily focuses on movies and music; now, Amazon sells far more print books than Kindle books.
I don’t assume Amazon is getting out of the Kindle recreation. They management 80% of the US market and near 90% in the UK. Audible is by far the preferred audiobook platform, however regardless that trendy Kindles help audiobooks, most individuals take heed to them on their smartphones.
Michael Kozlowski is the editor-in-chief at Good e-Reader and has written about audiobooks and e-readers for the previous fifteen years. Newspapers and web sites such because the CBC, CNET, Engadget, Huffington Submit and the New York Instances have picked up his articles. He Lives in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
