Thread: Rumored Sony Layoffs: Ebook Readers Affected?
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Old 04-10-2012, 02:18 AM   #20
Andrew H.
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Originally Posted by Kumabjorn View Post
According to Nihon Keizai Shinbun's (Japan's WSJ) website Sony is dismantling their TV production and 5,000 of the layoffs are within that sector. The other 5,000 are more or less part of prior announced restructuring. I don't think e-Readers will be impacted.
I wouldn't think so either. Sony's problem is that flat screen TVs went from being a luxury good to a commodity in just a couple of years, and Sony couldn't get the prices it was expecting because other companies were offering the same tech for much much less.
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