09-01-2011, 10:44 AM | #61 |
Chasing Butterflies
Posts: 3,132
Karma: 5074169
Join Date: Mar 2011
Location: American Southwest
Device: Uses batteries.
|
|
09-01-2011, 10:50 AM | #62 |
.
Posts: 3,408
Karma: 5647231
Join Date: Oct 2008
Device: never enough
|
|
09-01-2011, 10:51 AM | #63 |
I Do Like Ebooks
Posts: 145
Karma: 1006
Join Date: May 2009
Location: Prague, Czech rep.
Device: Pocketbook Ultra 650
|
|
09-01-2011, 10:52 AM | #64 |
.
Posts: 3,408
Karma: 5647231
Join Date: Oct 2008
Device: never enough
|
|
09-01-2011, 10:56 AM | #65 | |
I Do Like Ebooks
Posts: 145
Karma: 1006
Join Date: May 2009
Location: Prague, Czech rep.
Device: Pocketbook Ultra 650
|
Quote:
And if it does lower your sales in the future, it's the future prices you will need to adjust, not the current ones. Last edited by idle; 09-01-2011 at 10:56 AM. Reason: better wording |
|
09-01-2011, 11:09 AM | #66 | |
.
Posts: 3,408
Karma: 5647231
Join Date: Oct 2008
Device: never enough
|
Quote:
|
|
09-04-2011, 01:51 PM | #67 |
Guru
Posts: 902
Karma: 1660722
Join Date: Nov 2009
Location: Maryland
Device: PRS-650, PRS-600, PRS-350
|
|
09-04-2011, 08:57 PM | #68 |
Zealot
Posts: 124
Karma: 9252
Join Date: Jul 2011
Device: (prospective) kobo touch
|
There's also secondary business that the primary business generates to consider.
If sony sells few devices, at a high price, that's still going to be far fewer ebooks sold than if they sold many devices,creating a market. One reason they never hit a big market in their online ebooks store is that they didn't sell the volume of devices to get ebook readers familiar with their online book brand. Kindle sold high because even at a high price, everyone knew amazon and that volume of sales fueled more ebook sales. Sony remained exclusive and became even more exclusive, without volume sales. Whether due to lack of parts availability or exclusivity. It may be a combination, if they couldn't get the supply of parts, then why not keep the price high, at least get money that way, since they sell out. However, all this talk of sony selling out "everywhere" is just a rumor. Maybe lots and lots of sony stores and other stores like bestbuy/walmart/borders NEVER sold out. Borders at closing was practically giving them away, according to reports just around here. Sounds like sony in fact had supply in many places and the price just didn't allow the merchandise to move. A mistaken calculation or purposeful pricing by sony management, who knows? Reducing business to a question of supply/demand around a single device, for each device, seems a little too rube-capitalism-worshipper to belong anywhere but american right wing talk radio. Last edited by readingglasses; 09-04-2011 at 09:16 PM. |
09-04-2011, 09:22 PM | #69 |
Zealot
Posts: 124
Karma: 9252
Join Date: Jul 2011
Device: (prospective) kobo touch
|
Even saying "sony" is a little too simple. Sony has different management and different marketing and even different R&D across the world.
They don't use the same strategies in USA, Japan, India, France, UK. All have different marketing, different access to parts and different economics. They don't have "japanese businessman" in tokyo deciding how to appeal to americans. No international business can afford to be that completely centralized or they won't know what they're doing. |
09-06-2011, 11:33 AM | #70 | |
Wizard
Posts: 2,552
Karma: 3799999
Join Date: Jun 2009
Location: Foristell, Missouri, USA
Device: Nokia N800, PRS-505, Nook STR Glowlight, Kindle 3, Kobo Libra 2
|
Quote:
Also, eLink? Don't you mean eInk? No "L". |
|
09-06-2011, 03:42 PM | #71 |
Wizard
Posts: 3,455
Karma: 10484861
Join Date: May 2006
Device: PocketBook 360, before it was Sony Reader, cassiopeia A-20
|
They do. As much as possible, as often as possible.
Last time I was buying VCR, I specifically purchased Philips over Sony. With remote control from Sony VCR you can only control volume of Sony TV. With Philips remote you can control volume on hundreds of types of TV, including very obscure brand that I own. Just remember Sony Memory Stick, that was created specifically so that you would have to buy Sony memory stick for Sony devices, instead of generic (and, at the time, MUCH cheaper) SD card. Just remember Sony Reader PRS-500 that didn't work like UMASS device - so you HAD to use special Sony software to load books. Very crappy software IMHO. Just remember the very first e-ink reader Sony Librié. Incompatible with ANYTHING. You couldn't even load your own texts. Only texts purchased from Sony Ebookstore Japan. And those expired after 90 days. That was too much even for Japanese buyers and Sony Librié was very soon discontinued. There are hundreds of other examples. |
09-06-2011, 03:45 PM | #72 |
Séduisant
Posts: 4,706
Karma: 2107018
Join Date: Jan 2010
Location: Texas, USA
Device: Boox Note Air2+; Kobo Libra2; Kindle Scribe, Oasis3; iPad Mini6
|
Seems like it was just yesterday. Owned a couple of those products. I certainly recall the price on those "sticks" being very high.
|
09-06-2011, 04:56 PM | #73 |
mrkrgnao
Posts: 241
Karma: 237248
Join Date: May 2010
Device: PRS650, K3 Wireless, Galaxy S3, iPad 3.
|
A friend of mine had a Sony compact camera. It was easy to like the camera, but the thing would only take Sony memory cards, meaning there was no competition to drive the prices down. Net result: she ended up paying three times what she would have done for the same product had it been compatible with SD cards.
Of course, this was a conscious business strategy on the part of Sony. |
09-06-2011, 05:18 PM | #74 |
PHD in Horribleness
Posts: 2,320
Karma: 23599604
Join Date: Dec 2008
Location: In the ironbound section, near avenue L
Device: Just a whole bunch. I guess I am a collector now.
|
MicroSD to ProDuo adapter
|
09-06-2011, 05:23 PM | #75 |
Interested Bystander
Posts: 3,726
Karma: 19728152
Join Date: Jun 2008
Device: Note 4, Kobo One
|
I've got a neat one that lets you fit two microSD into a single MS adapter, so you can double up on the memory. I've moved to microSD for everything now, it is just more convenient, I've got a microSD->SD adapter for one camera, and then put that in a SD->CompactFlash adapter for the other
|
Tags |
blog, kindle, sony |
|
Similar Threads | ||||
Thread | Thread Starter | Forum | Replies | Last Post |
Dumping large amounts of books and sorting? | Pher | Library Management | 6 | 04-21-2011 06:31 AM |
What is the best current e-reader for reading manga? | Somebody | Which one should I buy? | 28 | 02-14-2011 04:24 PM |
PRS-600 Current Information on Sony Library Fixes? | twinszz | Sony Reader | 0 | 02-01-2010 11:18 AM |
Anyone using the current eSlick reader? | kenm | Which one should I buy? | 8 | 12-30-2009 01:18 AM |
Ended Sony Reader 505 TAN stock cover | Ea | Flea Market | 0 | 07-14-2009 02:25 PM |