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Originally Posted by JSWolf
I hate to say this, but I will anyway, NAEB and Sony are in deep shit now.
The price of books and delivery method for the Kindle is going to be a winner. Plus the selection. Face it, Amazon has one the war in less then one day.
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Jon,
I'm not so sure it's won anything. However, I do believe that if anyone is going to suffer over this, it will be Bookeen as well. And the reason I believe this is because now that Amazon has brought out it's own format (yeah, I *know* it's just a mobi PRC) with far more books available RIGHT NOW, I don't really see the need for Amazon to keep Mobipocket open. I believe one of Amazon's next moves will be to kill off Mobi.
Now the problem I see with this is that Whispernet is just here in the US, but as soon as they get it overseas, that means it will have the fastest, easiest method for selling and distributing ebooks - with the greatest number of titles. And don't you think most *major* publishers are going to want to have that part of the retail chain sewn up???
I hope this is not the case because I think the Cybook and PRS are far more flexible than the Kindle, but they're pitching it to the technophobe book readers out there and those people may well be sucked in.
Derek