Ebook Reader Wars?
September 16, 2008 by Anne Wayman
Filed under Jobs
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One of the reasons I like blogs so much is I don’t have to try and track everything I think I should write about here. For example, I’ve been a proponent of ebooks since the beginning; I’ve been singularly unimpressed with ebook readers. Fortunately, Joe Wikert over at his Publishing 2020 Blog takes time to track these devices.
Today he’s got a post called Sony Reader Now Selling at Target . Using Google Trends, he’s tracking Amazon’s Kindle (current price, $359) and Sony’s Ebook Reater ($299 at Target). It’s amazing. He speculates that Amazon doesn’t get the market as well as Sony does, he may be right.
He also points to an upcoming announcement by Sony and wonders if it too will announce wireless connectivity. I’ll bet they do.
We may be in the middle of an ebook reader war without even knowing it.
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I was considering asking for a Kindle for Xmas, but I might go for the Sony one – the main drawback of which I sure will be the inability to read ebooks purchased off Amazon with it…
I wonder why so many companies think a monopoly is the way to go… sigh