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Originally Posted by JSWolf
Lets say you are looking for an ebook reader in the USA.
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This is the crux of the matter. IF you are looking for an e-book reader, maybe the Kindle is a good deal, though I think that Sony is a much better deal right now if you want to go e-ink, and lcd's options are even better if you are not set on e-ink.
But Kindle was supposed to be the modern reincarnation of the book, so you were supposed to buy it without looking for an e-book reader.
Without major changes, I doubt the Kindle will outsell Sony. Right now Amazon fumbled it big time in my opinion, though with some tweaks they can get on the right path. The questions to me are how committed they are, what are acceptble sells, 15k a year, 50k a year, 500k a year - in the most optimistic case I thought 500k a year is a ceiling considering that up to date about 100 k dedicated e-book readers had been sold in the US ever, but now I think that if they sell 100k a year they will be lucky