BookBrunch - Are we about to see decline for Amazon?

Coupled with the Kindle/iPad switch, at the end of last year there was the "shock news" that ebooks sales were slowing down in the US. The news was accompanied by the singularly unedifying spectacle of consultants and pundits bouncing around like bees in a bottle trying to justify their previous tarot reading that ebook sales would have 80 per cent of the market in short order. The whole situation reminds me of multibillion dollar car companies who sold themselves and governments the idea that electric cars would be the future. How did that happen? Electric cars will never take over the world (fuel cells and hybrids might and a mega leap in battery technology might help). They simply never will, because they will always grind to a halt on the slip road of a motorway, or between the shops and your granny's house - ie. they are not perfect for the job.