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Originally Posted by speedlever
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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Because these numbers are not taking into account the entire Sony line... 500, 505, 300, 600, 700, 900, 350, 650, 950... between all the different models, there is no way B&N could have sold more. Plus, Sony is old outside the USA. The nook only in the USA. So really, the numbers have to be wrong.