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Originally Posted by nathantw
You are aware that Sony is partnered with Borders and that Borders is going to part ways with Amazon
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Seeing that ebook sales are largely meaningless to the bottom line of all three involved (amazon, borders, sony) I doubt there will be any fireworks or concerns from Amazon over kindle. This is strictly a niche market at the moment.
It would get interesting if Borders decides to answer kindle and simply adopt the sony unit rather than their current half-hearted "oh yeah, we sell that" attitude, or perhaps the publishers begin to feel threatened by the kindle store similar to the music industry fretting over iTunes.
In either case, the kindle has already (IMHO) overwhelmed the sony in sales, mindshare, and potential. Come 2008 you may be looking at the kindle and another category called "others". Not fair probably, but a MONSTER book site pushes this thing opposed to a tiny sony experiment that nobody but us has ever really heard about.
Had this debate happend a few weeks ago when we had that... "thing" in the FCC photo I would have rolled on the floor at the thought.
-d