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If you remember well Sony France CEO (president, maybe, don't remember well) told Ebouqin that Sony sold 15.000 Sony Readers in autumn 2008 - spring 2010 period. Last time Bookeen president talked about numbers (last year?), well he said: "we sold 30.000 ereaders overall".
These are ridiculous numbers. Ridiculous.
Reuters** is reporting that according to a research Amazon sold 5 millions Kindles overall. Barnes & Noble 1 million Nooks
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Get the sales number of kindle in france so it's relevant. in 2008 you still had to import the kindle the hard way so.... Numbers of kindle was probably way less than sony's 15.000.
An other point, e-reader market in france is only begining. Saying "Amazon wins", because they have the lead of the US market, is kind of presomptuous. So, the other country don't exists at all ? Remember a pool here on mobileread ? Sony and amazon where not that far off.
In france, right now, sony and bookeen own the market. That's reality. Might change, but not anytime soon.