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Originally Posted by porkupan
Where is Steve Haber? Still at Sony?
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Apparently. His bio links are still there:
http://news.sel.sony.com/en/corporat...eve_Haber.html
http://www.linkedin.com/pub/steve-haber/6/613/621
"Current:
President Digital Reading Business at Sony Electronics"
Maybe someone can email him and ask what's going on
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Or that the entire stock has gone to satisfy Japan's demand, the Western markets being left to pick up scraps. Once every Japanese has been allocated a reader, Sony will come back to us?
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Maybe. Sony's plan for Japan is pretty ambitious.
http://www.engadget.com/2010/11/28/s...arket-by-2012/
"Sony aims for half of Japan's e-reader market by 2012
Perhaps more stunning, however, is Sony's intentions to "sell 300,000 Readers in the first year and win half the domestic market by 2012" -- that's according to Sony Marketing Japan president Nobuki Kurita. "
So it's news like this that makes me doubt Sony will exit the ereader market wholesale. Maybe it'll scale back its presence in the US. The ereader market is exploding. It'll be bigger than the phyiscal book market. I doubt Sony will ignore a piece of the ereader market. Plus Sony is coming out with two Android tablets that'll augment the Sony ebookstore, as Sony has announced that they'll ship with the online services Qriocity and Reader Store.
Retailers clearing Sony Readers is troubling. There are many niche ereaders such as Pocketbook. No one is saying those are end of line as they aren't in Best Buy. Maybe Sony's plan is to be a niche player in the US. To do that they don't need to sell in Best Buy, just their Sony Stores.