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Originally Posted by Ajax
It seems like Amazon is able to reduce the price while increasing the quality of the product. Maybe if Sony tried that tactic it would sell some more units.
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I dunno, I think Sony is probably done. Despite getting into the market first, they just don't have a brand identity that is associated with books, while Amazon and B&N obviously do. They would've been much better off building ebook devices for an existing chain of bookstores at the outset.
Also, I suspect Amazon is at least temporarily suspending its previous strategy (profiting from both device and ebooks) in favor of profiting primarily off the ebooks. I'm pretty sure Sony was planning to make money from the device, in which case the price war is going to seriously hurt them.