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Originally Posted by Alisa
Does anyone know how many units Sony has sold? I have no real data with which to form a good opinion but I've been interested in readers for quite a while and never heard any buzz about them anywhere but gadget blogs and here. I have another board I go to, mostly a women's community, not tech-centered at all, and folks there were talking about the Kindle. Several were sorely disappointed that it was sold out already. That makes me suspect that Amazon could outsell Sony pretty handily. They have better visibility it seems and I think people are more likely to trust the longevity of Amazon as a bookseller than Sony. Now if Sony and Borders could actually get moving on their partnership, we might have a real horserace.
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Same experience here. I have 5 people (total strangers) walk up to me when they saw me reading in a public place and ask "Hey is that the Amazon thingy?" Funny that they knew it was the Amazon device, but no one remembered the name Kindle.
So anyway, yeah, I think Amazon will sell more readers than sony. If they have the stock that is. My sony reader was a gadget to most people, but my Kindle is an ebook thingy. Of course, we know they are the same, but Joe Average doesn't.
I would mark it up to advertising and the Amazon name obviously. Never had anyone ask "is that the Sony Reader thingy?"