Not exact matches
So our second Kindle was developed more quickly, and now as you know that team is launching
Kindles and Fire TVs and Fire
tablets and Echos and more every
year.»
With a
tablet (or
tablets) likely costing three to four times the cost of the
Kindles, the analyst also expects the Amazon
tablet will only slightly eat into its Kindle e-reader count next
year as Amazon will continue to mark down Kindle prices.
And Amazon has sold more
Kindles over the last several
years than most companies have sold of any
tablet - shaped devices.
Judi Gordey of Upper Marlboro, Maryland, who has been a
Kindle Nation citizen since May of this
year, was randomly selected from all the entries to win a
KINDLE FIRE
tablet.
Washington (April 5, 2012)-- One - fifth of American adults (21 %) report that they have read an e-book in the past
year, and this number increased following a gift - giving season that saw a spike in the ownership of both
tablet computers and e-book reading devices such as the original
Kindles and Nooks.
Amazon will continue to sell their monochrome E Ink
Kindles, but with the huge success of the Nook Color from last
year, they are looking to expand into the color ereader /
tablet market for those wanting to add some color to their reading experience.
Amazon purchased Liquavista from Samsung last
year, and is rumored to be using color e-paper in future
Kindles and
tablets.
In another 3
years we'll be at 50 million
Kindles and we'll still have reporters writing about how eInk is no better than LCD and how a
Tablet is a better eReader because you can play games on it.
So now they offer a bunch of different Echos in all shapes and sizes, along with three different Fire
tablet sizes, and yet the Kindle line gets neglected once again as we're left with the same four 6 - inch
Kindles as last
year, three of which have the exact same screen.
As more and more
tablets and smart phones and comparable devices are adopted by the entire range of users, from high - end goodies to very affordable low - end devices, and now that
Kindles and Nooks are routinely being offered below $ 50 — and I suspect within 2 - 3
years, there will be sub - $ 35 Eink readers — ebooks are soon going to be the only market that really matters.
Other major findings Pew found were that four times as many people now read e-books than two
years ago, e-book reading happens on several types of devices, including
Kindles, Nooks, smartphones, and
tablets, and that Amazon's Kindle Fire grew in
tablet market share from 5 percent in mid-December to 14 percent in mid-January.
Amazon, of course, has been selling
Kindles for the last 7
years, and they introduced their own line of multimedia
tablets in 2011.