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Originally Posted by Alisa
The average consumer might go for the 505 right now since they'll see it on the shelves at their local Circuit City or Best Buy but I don't know how much visibility Bookeen has with them anyway. I think Amazon and the Kindle take the biggest hit from the 505 release. But that said, Bookeen would do well to get this thing out the door by the time the Kindle comes out.
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You've got your finger on a very important point, there, Alisa. Namely that Sony is the only Reader with any sort of retail presence. However few folks have seen them, the simple fact that they
are in stores means a lot of folks have seen them who haven't the least inkling that Bookeen, iRex, HanLin, etc. even
exist. It will be
very interesting to see what the Kindle does to this market. Amazon is so big, it almost has retail level visibility without having a single brick & mortar store to its name.