01-05-2013, 01:10 AM | #16 | |
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Not too surpsing given Sony is selling 'last gen' hardware at current gen prices (I.e. the T2 is the same price as the PaperWhite and Kobo Glo). Sony also isn't even trying with tablets. Actually a bit scary we may be hurtling toward an Amazon monopoly, given the bad news out of B&N and Sonys obvious slide and Kobo's seemingly abandoning the US market which is a trend setter. |
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01-05-2013, 11:08 AM | #17 |
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^ I thought I saw Sony tablets somewhere, but they may have been Windows RTs...
I wish they made a PW type reader, so I could keep it as a second device for ePub library books. |
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Sony do make quite a range of Android tablets. I haven't used them, so I don't know if they're any good.
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01-05-2013, 04:51 PM | #19 | |
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Edit -- p.s. looking right now, 'viewers' is 345 Amazon, 187 Kobo, 57 B&N, 50 Sony, yet the Sony forum has a total thread count of +12000 vs. +4000 with Kobo and +3000 with B&N, suggesting Sony used to be much more popular but has lost the momentum it had with early adopters. I would guess that a year from now we'll be looking at a near Amazon monopoly in the US with B&N a distant second, and Amazon and Kobo as a duopoly in most other markets. Sony's wide retail footprint doesn't matter for much - as it once did - now that ereaders are widely available. Last edited by stewacide; 01-05-2013 at 05:08 PM. |
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01-05-2013, 08:15 PM | #20 | |
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01-06-2013, 08:38 AM | #21 | |
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There are no signs it has gone up and a few it has gone down. Any growth among non-Amazon ebook vendors in the US seems to be going to Apple. Apparently at the expense of the other ePub vendors more than Amazon. |
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01-06-2013, 07:51 PM | #23 |
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Germany is still split between Bookeen, favored by one book store chain, Trekstor, favored by another, Kindle and Sony and Kobo. I was pleasantly surprised to have found them ALL in electronics stores alongside each other, even saw Pocketbooks there! Last year, all they had were Sonys.
In France, the major electronics store sells Kobos only. I think they have a content deal with Kobo. |
01-06-2013, 07:54 PM | #24 |
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Maybe this is going to change with BN's entrance to the market. I also noticed that the Nook iOS app was recently updated to support the main European languages.... Very interesting.....
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I've seen a fair number of Kobo's in the wild though so they might actually be more popular than we think here (The combination of Smith's and play.com should give them a fairly solid advertising base). |
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