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Originally Posted by Doogman
I highly doubt Sony will be releasing a new model so soon. What would be the point if they can't produce and stock them? If May is THE date, then the 650 would have been unavailable for 2/3 of its production run.
Perhaps the Kindle sucked the oxygen out of the room for 6" Eink displays, although Amazon doesn't seem to have trouble getting them.
At this time last year Sony had some price cuts.  |
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Originally Posted by doreenjoy
Yes, so it would have been wise of them to scale back on inventory this year, so they don't have to make those big price cuts again.
I think they scaled back on purpose. Ereaders is a side business for them compared to the Playstation/Bravia/Vaio product lines.
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Originally Posted by doreenjoy
I'm saying that they're putting more resources into PS and Vaio, hence the Reader division is an afterthought. They don't particularly care if they make money from the Readers, IMO.
It seems a bit pointless to armchair quarterback a major electronics company as though the executives have rocks for brains.
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Some article someone posted here speculated the introduction of the readers to the Japanese market went better than anticipated and caused thus the worldwide shortage. This sounds quite plausible to me. Take that and the skyrocking sales in the ereadermarket outside the US all in all and you have a perfect business desaster due to success.
Same happened to PB this year. They have difficulties adapting to their success as there is not only the goods to be manufactured, parts to be available in the amount asked for, but also staff to be hired and trained to cope and the office and production space to be had to expand.
There are a lot of things needed to work smoothly to have a product on the shelf.