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Originally Posted by ProfCrash
We don't know that. There could be a new Sony being released which would explain the sales in the US.
I would be sad if we lost the Sony's. They have been an innovator and applied pressure to Amazon and other companies. If I were to get an E Pub reader, it would be a Sony.
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Sony has lost billions of dollars over the past two years and they got hit hard by floods in Thailand and the earthquake/tsunami in Japan, plus they have a very dysfunctional corporate organization wherein competing divisions have no clue as to what the other divisions are doing. Something has got to give sooner or later. I would not be surprised to see Sony start downsizing their lackluster hardware systems in order to concentrate on hardware systems that have good profits. I suspect their bread and butter right now is their music holdings, which of course is not hardware.
Their camera division is struggling big time to keep up with demand. I think their ereader group has also been struggling for at least a couple of years judging by the on and off unavailability of even new ereaders during that period.