Waterstones bookstores will not sell more Kindle – The Post

Waterstones is the most largest bookstore chain in the United Kingdom (with more than 270 outlets), and is owned by Russian billionaire Alexander Mamut. The chain has decided this week to remove from the shelves of many of its libraries the Kindle – the ebook reader from Amazon product since 2009 – because of poor sales. The place of e-readers will be used to expose other paper books.

James Daunt, the managing director of Waterstones, he told the British magazine The Bookseller : “Sales the Kindle continue to be pitiful, so we are removing them from the display areas in stores. ” Daunt added: “It looks much like the life of one of those inexplicable bestseller success; one day he sold batteries and batteries, and the next day I thank heaven for every copy sold because I can not wait to take it off the shelf and put something back “.

David Prescott, CEO Blackwell, another major bookstore chain in the United Kingdom, selling tablet of Barnes & amp; Noble, confirmed to Bookseller the drop in sales of e-readers: “Do you see a lot more people buy an e-reader for the first time. Only those who already have it have buy new models. ” Douglas McCabe, analyst at Enders English, said the e-reader could be one of the objects of technological consumption with shorter lives than ever.

A report by Nielsen Bookscann – a leading monitoring and analysis of the market – has confirmed that for the first time since 2007, in the first months of 2015 the market for physical books in the UK grew by 4.6% (for a value of 739.5 million pounds). Even in the US, after years in which digital seemed having to progressively replace, the sales trend for printed books is positive, a negative for ebooks. But the crisis of the readers might also have to do with the success of tablets like Apple’s iPad, which offer the ability to read eBooks (also with Amazon’s Kindle app).
A spokeswoman for Amazon said Bookseller that Amazon is “satisfied for the moment positive” because “in 2105 sales are growing both in the US and the UK”. In the UK in fact the sales of electronic books are growing.