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Originally Posted by KlondikeGeoff
Also, I am chagrined and appalled to see that Sony seems to be following Gemstar's idiotic policy of keeping it pretty much a secret. If they advertised it at a tiny fraction of the amount they do for their other consumer products, there would be a quantum jump in sales, but for some unknown reason, they don't seem to want to. Very mysterious.
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Yeah, this confuses me, also. One of the surprising things about the Kindle launch, for me, was the attitude among the press that this was the first of its kind. Not one question for Bezos about the Sony competition. They let him get away with implying it was the first e-ink device on the market. The only comments about other devices in the mainstream media were about the multitude of failed ebook readers in the past.
If Sony had made a big deal out of the Reader launch, they could have gotten the first mover advantage! Granted, it's not as big of a deal as Amazon launching one (since it's their first foray into devices, and since they have all this content) but still...