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It depends where you live. There are certainly new netbooks available in the UK from, for example, Amazon.co.uk. Asus and perhaps others still supply them in markets where there is demand, but I guess those are mostly poor countries.
Asus Eee PC X101CH 10.1-inch Netbook (Purple) - (Intel Atom N2600 1.6GHz, 1GB RAM, 320GB HDD, LAN, WLAN, Webcam, Integrated Graphics, Windows 7 Starter) First available 30 Oct 2012 http://www.amazon.co.uk/Asus-X101CH-10-1-inch-Netbook-Purple...
However, the netbook specification is very limited (by Intel and Microsoft), and you get better screen resolution and more memory by buying a very slow laptop. This very slow laptop may even be called a "netbook". However, if it uses an AMD chip (ie not an Atom), then it is not bound by Intel's netbook specification.
This is basically a netbook with an Atom-speed AMD CPU:
Acer Aspire V5-121 11.6-inch Laptop (Blue) - (AMD C70 1GHz Processor, 2GB RAM, 320GB HDD, LAN, WLAN, Webcam, Integrated Graphics, Windows 8) First available 17 April 2013 http://www.amazon.co.uk/Acer-Aspire-V5-121-11-6-inch-Laptop/...
The price difference is £13 ($21) which gets you Windows 8 instead of Windows 7 Starter, and 2GB instead of 1GB of memory. Weight is the same (998g vs 1kg).
Microsoft basically killed the netbook market when it stopped selling Windows XP Ultra Low Cost PC edition for peanuts ($15 or less). Windows 7 Starter was offered very grudgingly at much higher cost, and I suspect most netbook buyers would prefer XP.
All the OEMs knew this was coming. Microsoft said the ULCPC offering would be "available until the later of June 30, 2010, or one year after general availability of the next version of Windows." (ie Windows 7) http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/news/features/2008/apr08/04-0...