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In the past two weeks, Sony has added over 1400 new titles for the Reader (a 3.6% increase) and now have nearly 42,000 ebooks for sale at their eBook Store (that number includes a fairly small number of double counts). They've been particularly busy adding Fiction & Lit titles, Romances, and also short stories in SF & Fantasy. They've also added a new category for Juvenile Fiction with several books by Beverly Cleary. This activity is comforting to see given Sony's somewhat sluggish activity the last three months. The long trend (at least, since mid-September) continues with Sony averaging 105 new books per day to their offerings. By contrast, Amazon has been adding an average of 189 new titles per day for the Kindle since late November and now lists 122,880 titles (that number includes some multiple counts and also self-published titles that the Sony figure doesn't include).
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