Thread: Has Sony lost the e-book battle against Amazon?
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Old 08-11-2008, 06:52 PM   #53
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First I want to say I really like my PRS-505, its a fantastic device and SONY and contrary to its normal business practices, it's opened up the device. By supporting competing products and releasing its LRF specs. For me that is a big selling point.


However from a business perspective I believe the tides have shifted and SONY has losing the war. I also believe the worse is yet to come for SONY.

Here why.
The real war is Kindle vs ePub. (Had SONY still been in the game it would have been Kindle vs BeBB.)
While ePub is great for the publishers and consumers it is terrible for the content providers. It forces content providers to give up revenue due to competition and commoditized their eBook readers. Since any device can now enter the eBook market without having to pay large royalties to the owner of the proprietary format.

Now SONY will be hit on two fronts. It will start seeing a reduction in sales on its BeBB books as well as more competition on it's PRS Readers, we are seeing this develop even now.

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