Amazon, Barnes And Noble Not Falling For The Same Old eBook Story Again

from the prove-people-want-it dept

It's been over a decade since we saw stories popping up everywhere about how ebooks were going to change the face of the publishing and bookselling industry -- and yet, it's still remained very much the niche market. There are some believers, but hellish copy protection, clunky readers and a generally bad user experience have still kept the market quite small. Every year or so, we see some report somewhere saying that eBooks will rise again, but there's never much to support that. The latest evidence is that both Barnes and Noble and Amazon have said enough to the hype and have decided not to carry the latest Sony Reader -- noting that past attempts to sell similar items have shown little consumer interest. It certainly could happen that finally a larger market is found, but with so many false starts and false promises, it appears that retailers in the space would like to see a little more proof of an actual market before they jump in again.

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