Re: Financial Times speculates on death of the Sony Reader

I'm guessing, though, that that's a problem that will be solved within  
a year or two.

And, given the size of the installed base of the Kindle, you're going  
to see a LOT more attention from big houses to the ebook market in a  
very short time. I think the tipping point is coming, fast.

Marion Gropen
Gropen Associates, Inc.
By-The-Question Consulting,  Tools for Publishers, & Classes
www.GropenAssoc.com
Her blog: www.GropenAssoc.com/blog


On Aug 8, 2008, at 5:46 PM, Suzanne Francis wrote:

> As usual the article looks at everything from an US point of view,
> thereby neglecting the rest of the world where access to Kindle's 3G
> network will not be a reality any time soon, if ever.  It would be  
> Sony
> or one of its competitors for me--or nothing. Suzanne
>
> Bill Janssen wrote:
>>
>> http://www.ft.com/cms/s/b8b8e0c0-63d2-11dd-844f-0000779fd18c,dwp_uuid=75297104-33fa-11da-adae-00000e2511c8,print=yes.html
>> <http://www.ft.com/cms/s/b8b8e0c0-63d2-11dd-844f-0000779fd18c,dwp_uuid=75297104-33fa-11da-adae-00000e2511c8,print=yes.html 
>> >
>>
>> The reporter says that Stringer, the chief of Sony, is trying to make
>> everything connected, but that the Kindle may already have trumped  
>> the
>> Reader:
>>
>> ``The danger for Sony is that it is already too late. Amazon has
>> grabbed the market-leading position from Sony and established a
>> stronger brand, which is what happened with the iPod and the
>> Walkman. Sony never managed to recover, despite trying repeatedly to
>> match Apple.''
>>
>>



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