On China's Twitter-like social media platform Weibo,
在中国类似推特的社交媒体平台新浪微博上，
the hashtag "Kindle may exit China" has already been read more than 300 million times since it first appeared on Tuesday morning.
“Kindle或退出中国”的话题自周二早上首次出现以来，阅读量已经超过3亿次XRHJ%s+7EnS5deU。
The US-based tech giant Amazon brought its famous e-reader to the Chinese market in 2013.
2013年，美国科技巨头亚马逊将其著名的电子阅读器引入了中国fHkA~&cxoj~%uhn。
In 2019, Amazon China stopped selling paper books.
2019年，亚马逊中国停止销售纸质书)^QTdK~S*yW。
Soon after, it discontinued the sale of the Kindle devices on its own platform.
不久之后，在自己的平台上，该巨头也停止了销售Kindle设备MwF@+~jUNv。
While it did open flagship stores on two leading Chinese e-commerce platforms -- Alibaba's Tmall and JD.com, the Tmall store closed a couple of months ago,
虽然亚马逊在中国两大电子商务平台--阿里巴巴的天猫商城和京东上开设了旗舰店，但就在几个月前，天猫商城的店铺已经关闭，
and now customers have found that all Kindle models on JD.com have been listed as "sold out" except for the basic one, priced at about 100 dollars.
而用户最近发现，除了一台售价约100美元的基本款，其它所有Kindle设备在京东上的状态均为“无货”]P(W.618-^Y。

Customer services verified the message, adding they hadn't received any notice that Kindle was withdrawing from China.
亚马逊客户服务部门证实了这一消息，并补充称他们没有收到任何关于Kindle将退出中国的通知.ouRc#uev!UdVAwv。
Although it's still uncertain what course of action Amazon may be taking, analysts say the Kindle hasn't been as competitive in China recently.
虽然目前还不确定亚马逊接下来会采取什么行动，但分析人士称，Kindle最近在中国市场的竞争力在逐渐减弱@D|yrSxxTF。
There might have been only a few domestic e-reader manufacturers in China at first, but after years of development, there are now thousands of such products in the market.
在一开始，中国国内的电子阅读器制造商可能只有几家，但经过多年的发展，现在市场上已经有成千上万种这样的产品Ej;EHscUbG(Go。
What the Kindle took as its biggest advantages -- protecting eyes and large content database -- these can be easily overtaken by other manufacturers.
而Kindle最大的优势--保护眼睛和庞大的内容数据库--很容易被其他制造商超越U..8u4)*.nfSVNr。
For a long time, the only e-reader Chinese consumers took any notice of was the Kindle.
很长一段时间以来，中国消费者唯一关注的电子阅读器就是Kindle|&A+r,mDSx1G。
But as more quality devices surface, there's a lot of interest in which one might replace the Kindle should it become unavailable.
但随着越来越多高质量的设备出现，如果Kindle服务不可用，那么哪种设备能取而代之将深受大家关注o5Po4WS8MG8[W~Mp8#m-。