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Originally Posted by jasonkchapman
Then again, since Amazon doesn't have a store presence, it might be to their advantage to let Sony legitimize the whole e-book reader concept for the mainstream market and get the chatter going. Then Amazon only has to sell its own unit by comparison. It no longer has to sell both the concept and the unit.
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I do think a rising tide will lift all boats ultimately but if they're not going to support each other's formats then the choice of which reader is also a choice for many of which bookstore. That's the real revenue generator. I would imagine there is little or no profit on the readers even though it's a fairly big purchase for most consumers. We focus a lot on the choice of readers and many of us here are buying books without the DRM or downloading public domain works so that choice is less constricting. The consumer that I'm betting is the focus of their model is buying books at their bookstore and if they buy a 505 that bookstore is not Amazon.