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Originally Posted by sfernald
I guess what I'm saying is that as an elite consumer electronics company, Sony will focus on unique high-margin products, not commoditized, low-margin ones. I would expect Sony to slowly leave this market over the next year or two if the profit continues to get sucked out of the market. Amazon is showing that the ebook biz is mostly going to be a battle of services and software and high-volume, low-margin sales. Sony will lose that battle any day and knows it. They can't compete on software or services. Look at how weak the ebook connect store is to this day - or the PS3 store - or whatever they try to do. They just aren't any good at it. What they are good at is building high-quality electronic gadgetry with state of the art functionality.
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I disagree that the Connect Store is weak. Sony has done a pretty good job at improving the store. Granted, it wasn't all that much when it first started, but now it is pretty good. On a par with a lot of other dedicated ebook shops. The PS3 was a problem because of how late it was when it was released with nothing really special vs the XboX 360 and the price was ridiculous. One thing I have been seeing with Sony is that since the Kindle launched, two major fiction books were available on the day the hardcovers were released but go to Amazon and the were not available. Have you taken a recent look at the Connect Store?