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Originally Posted by HarryT
I don't quite follow you, David. Why would these researchers not think that people were reading books on their Pocket PC, for example? Reader isn't confined to desktop Windows. I read on various Pocket PCs for many years before buying my Sony.
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Isn't a Pocket PC a computer with a screen? That's all I meant -- researchers will be able to draw the incorrect conclusion that all these LIT books are being read on Windows machines (desktop, notebook or pocketpc) and not on Sony Readers or Kindles.
So the data could easily look skewed against the amount of reading being done on Sony Readers, if one just looks at the sales figures, and it would be easy for publishers to say "We're selling far more LIT versions of our books and far fewer LRF (or LRX) versions, so we'll stop providing the LRF versions." And then Sony could easily say "No content is soon going to equate to no sales, so let's bag the hardware by lowering the price on the exisiting stock and not making any more and cut our losses." Which would be horrible, since many of the LIT books being sold are being read on Sony Readers.