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Old 06-09-2008, 11:32 AM   #9
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But if the 60/40 split is wrong, how do you know the production number is correct?
I'm not sure it matters. Even accepting the statistics of 60-80,000 screens per month, you are talking 720,000 to 960,000 units in 2008, which is still a significant amount. And even if we assume that the real number is 720,000 units and that Sony and Amazon combined account for just 50% of that volume, which is probably low but not unreasonable, that's still a lot of e-book readers being sold in the U.S., considering this is breakthrough technology at this point (at least in the consumer world).
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