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| Author: | pcernie [ Thu Oct 08, 2015 7:30 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Waterstones takes Kindles off shelves due to 'pitiful' sales |
Waterstones takes Kindles off shelves due to 'pitiful' sales | TechRadar http://www.techradar.com/news/mobile-co ... es-1306227 Hmmm. Could just be that it's quite hard to take the Kindle much further, like phones. Also, the Voyage is laughably priced. |
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| Author: | jonbwfc [ Thu Oct 08, 2015 8:03 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Waterstones takes Kindles off shelves due to 'pitiful' sales |
Everyone who wants one has one already. |
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| Author: | paulzolo [ Thu Oct 08, 2015 8:15 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Waterstones takes Kindles off shelves due to 'pitiful' sales |
They've all gone from my local branch. I expect people are questioning the need to put batteries in a book. |
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| Author: | Spreadie [ Thu Oct 08, 2015 8:43 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Waterstones takes Kindles off shelves due to 'pitiful' sales |
Amazon built-in obsolesence in 5.. 4.. 3.. 2.. The Kindle app is available for every type of tablet, and few people are ever far enough away from a power source to value the extended battery life of a kindle e-reader; plus, Amazon's Kindle tablets are far too locked down for people to really enjoy (IMO). |
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| Author: | l3v1ck [ Thu Oct 08, 2015 9:02 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Waterstones takes Kindles off shelves due to 'pitiful' sales |
I love my kindle paperwhite, is the dog's bollocks. But I'd never replace it until it died, there's just no need. |
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| Author: | hifidelity2 [ Fri Oct 09, 2015 7:46 am ] | |||||||||
| Post subject: | Re: Waterstones takes Kindles off shelves due to 'pitiful' sales | |||||||||
That is the biggest issue for me and why I have not got one I would like one for the commute / holidays to make my bag lighter(I have a Nexus 10 but that's a bit heavy to hold one handed and as a tablet its not as nice to read as a book / ebook) I have thought of getting one of the others (Nook) as they are not locked down and then just "converting" any books I buy to epub |
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| Author: | pcernie [ Fri Oct 09, 2015 11:56 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Waterstones takes Kindles off shelves due to 'pitiful' sales |
I've got a Kindle and convert to epub, problem is it doesn't always come out so great. I've never tried going from epub to mobi... |
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| Author: | big_D [ Fri Oct 09, 2015 12:05 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Waterstones takes Kindles off shelves due to 'pitiful' sales |
Probably because most people who will buy a Kindle are already Amazon users and buy it direct? We have 4 at home... |
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| Author: | cloaked_wolf [ Fri Oct 09, 2015 1:04 pm ] | |||||||||
| Post subject: | Re: Waterstones takes Kindles off shelves due to 'pitiful' sales | |||||||||
+1. I had no idea Waterstones sold them. Buying from Amazon is precisely what I did. |
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| Author: | paulzolo [ Fri Oct 09, 2015 2:13 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Waterstones takes Kindles off shelves due to 'pitiful' sales |
Originally, Waterstones had an almost Apple Store kind of set up for Kindles. Then it got scaled back to a shelf with them all demanding to be charged. Recently, they all were replaced with the usual Christmas gifts/books. |
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