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Originally Posted by jswinden
650 out of stock in US again.
I read an article the other day that claimed eBook readers stats as follows:
Kindle: 48% of market
iPad: 35%*
Nook: 5%
Sony: 4%
*iPad is not a dedicated reading device so it shouldn't have been in the list. However you can extrapolate from the figures that Amazon sells 12 times as many Kindles as Sony sells Sony Readers! If I was the eInk provider I would certainly cater to Amazon rather than Sony and B&N who combined are outsold nearly 6 to 1 by Amazon.
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Hmmm. Where did you see the article?
Given that reading eBooks is a principal use case for the iPad,
I'd include it. (Especially given all the hoopla over whether the tablet would doom the dedicated reader.)
But the last I knew, PVI was not the only manufacturer of eInk screens. I had that question at the Sony launch I covered in NYC some time back, and eInk's VP of Marketing who was present stated that the technology had been licensed to other foundries, so anticipated supply chain constraints from having only one supplier weren't an issue. Sony's Reader division President concurred, saying that while he worried about many things, supplies of eInk screens wasn't one of them.
The eInk screen is only one component, and what goes into a reader is sourced from many places, any of which might become a bottleneck. Current "Just In Time" manufacturing practices assume you can
get things just in time. If you can't...
Meanwhile, it sounds like Sony is selling all the units they can produce.
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Dennis