The sale of e-notebook is tended downwards

E-notes or e-notebooks are products that usually have an e-link screen and whose main function is to replace paper and improve portability. The Sony Digital Paper was the first to produce an entire industry, and these supported PDF files. Many liked how easy it was and were able to read thousands of dense documents on the part of dense documents and sign them as needed.

New participants came onto the market very quickly with their attitude to the note. Onyx Boox was the first and then the locks opened. Chinese companies such as Mebook, Hanvon, Supernote and the Japanese company Fujitsu published the pioneering quadero. The greatest success story in this sector must be remarkable. Remarkable concentrated exclusively on e-notes, while all other e-book readers had and they could not have good emergency experience. However, it has shown noteworthy that if you have a product, you can earn a lot of money that sells hardware, accessories, subscriptions for premium functions and regular software updates. Even after more than 6 years of e-emergency, the undisputed market leader has become remarkable, and now everyone else is trying to copy them.

Amazon and Kobo have been almost 13 years after the first e-athlete book came out to jump into the fight. Kobo started with the Elipsa, which came out in 2021, and the current generation Elipsa 2e a few years later. On the other hand, Amazon published the 300 PPI E-Notebook called Skrib in 2022, and this was the first large-scale picture with this good resolution. In 2024 they made a little freshness of the writer, but do not make sense.

Are e-notes a flop?

Many companies involved in e-emergency made a large selection at an early stage. Sony, the pioneer of e-emergency, left the business completely with the second generation digital paper. Fujitsu has not updated its devices in over 4 years and finally created a color version of the Quaderno series with Kaleido 3. However, it is only made in limited batches. Onyx Boox still has some skin in the game, but its products have risen by 30% due to tariffs and mainly focuses on its domestic market. The few e-notes they make cost over $ 700

The Amazon Kindle Scribe is a hybrid e-athlete book. It can take notes and edit PDF files, but only read e-books that own customers and buy them on the device. The writer is ideal for comics and digital magazines with a Kindle Unlimited subscription. However, it doesn't work well; Amazon sells less than 500 worldwide every month. Even if you operate sales, you don't sell very many.

The Kobo Elipsa 2E is not better. At Amazon it sells less than a hundred a month on the websites of Canadian and united states. For other retailers, things are a bit darker, since Kobo is heavily dependent on bookstores and big box shops to bring their devices to the public. They also sell them online. I spoke to many bookstore owners in Great Britain and France, and they tell me that it sells so badly that they only sell it online and not in their shops. Chapter Indigo is the largest bookstore in Canada, and the Elipsa is not in the shops in Vancouver and only 2 of 12 bookstores in Toronto are in stock. The lack of availability in bookstores is very meaningful how poorly the Elipsa sells.

One of the falls of e-notebooks is that they are expensive and have become easier over time. A modern e-notebook hardly fits in a handbag or handbag. It hardly fits a backpack full of other things like a laptop. I don't know anyone on site with one, although some of my friends have e-book readers over ten years old.

E-notes are tended downwards. You just don't sell enough quantities so that the scale effects occur and increase the prices down. Nowadays it is exactly the opposite; E-notebooks are more expensive than ever. I bet more people write on their iPad than an elipse or a writer.

Michael Kozlowski is the editor-in-chief at Good E-Reader and has written audio books and e-readers in the past fifteen years. Newspapers and websites such as CBC, Cnet, Engadget, Huffington Post and the New York Times have taken up its articles. He lives in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.