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Old 01-24-2011, 07:53 PM   #30
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Originally Posted by JSWolf View Post
You did nothing wrong. You stepped on no toes. You did nothing wrong. Well, actually, you did one thing slightly wrong. You based your response on an article full of guesswork. Sony, Amazon, & B&N do not give out sales numbers so any article with number like that is pure guesswork. It could be way off for all we know. And to be honest, since it's a guess, I don't hold much stock in it. The others listed there, I don't know if they give out sales numbers or not.
Jon,

Is there any reason to disbelieve that those are reasonably accurate educated guesses? They have to have something to calculate those numbers. How are they derived?

And speaking of assumptions, what is this one based on?
"Sony, widely assumed to be No. 2 in the e-reader market behind Amazon"

And speaking only for myself, connectivity ranks pretty high on the required feature list. Even though I spend 99% of my time disconnected (as per the article), having the availability of wifi/3g for purchase and/or file transfer is a major plus for me.

Thus far all my books with one exception have been purchased and d/l to my computer and emailed via calibre to my kindle.com address. The one exception was too large for Google mail to send, so I had to sideload that one. Sideloading is no big deal, but I find wifi connectivity more convenient.
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