Yes, yes, I know that there is a smaller market for them but ... Kindle readers buy more books (apparently) - surely, with the sales of books dropping through the floor* it makes sense to go get that Kindle market?
I'm getting soooo unhappy reading reviews of critical thinking books (or whatever) and finding they are not on Kindle. I'd buy them if they were! It's frustrating.
And the ridiculous thing is that so many of these books aren't easily available in shops either. You have to be hyper-organised to order them - and thus remember you wanted to read them.
Seriously, I dream of the a revivification of the wild, omniphagous auto-didacticism of the late Victorian age. Kindle strikes me as the perfect engine of change to bring this about. The opportunity is surely now, when the shape of the market - what it will be, what "goes" on Kindle, how we use it - is still amorphous.
*Have publishers of serious non-fiction basically given up and decided that their only market is (academic) libraries?
Rant over.