The display of Sonys in my local Waterstones (UK) is still pretty pathetic. A collection of half-a-dozen rather bashed boxes in an ill-lit locked glass cabinet, with an unexciting-looking collection of leaflets half hidden from view.
I think that the only buyers such stores are likely to attract are those who already know all about the product and have researched exactly which one they want to buy.
Can ereaders really gather mass-momentum when they seem like an almost purely online phenomenon at the moment in the UK?
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