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Originally Posted by NatCh
Y 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.
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In my humble opinion Amazon needs to start making some buzz about the Kindle. They have great visibility but they're not using it. I don't think most people have heard a single word about the upcoming launch. It would certainly make them think twice about the 505. Sony was smart to get it into the stores before the Kindle launch. They're going to have a much harder time luring people to commit to the Connect store if Amazon offers more titles. But if Sony does some good marketing right now and manages to get a lot of the buying public that may be interested in trying ebooks, those customers are likely not going to turn around and buy a Kindle. I'm hoping they'll realize after slugging it out for awhile that they'll both move more books if they loosen up on the formats.