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Originally Posted by carld
Surly Sony has something planned. If not, they're going to get stomped this holiday season.
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Their ebook business is there to make money on the hardware as shown by them having launched their hardware without a bookstore everywhere else outside of north america.
If they can't make money on the hardware then they will leave the market or adjust so that they can make money that way, the future for sony in this market will probably end up being a higher end device tied to the b&n site or perhaps they will be one that ends up licensing the kindle hardware and producing a sony-branded version of that. They have tried being a trailblazer in this market, but they simply don't have the same level of desire as other companies where the hardware is secondary to boosting their sales of content like amazon or b&n.