Thread: Has Sony lost the e-book battle against Amazon?
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Old 08-14-2008, 12:27 PM   #138
Steven Lyle Jordan
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LOL! But really, I think a huge market for reading devices could be romance & erotica. There are plenty of people who don't particularly want to tote around books like these in public. Porn on VHS helped fill the same sort of need: privacy.
Romance is, I believe, already the #1 e-book category by sales estimates. If Harlequin, et al, provide their catalogs in either Sony's or Kindle's formats, we could be talking about a major coup for the format of choice.

As to porn: I'm convinced that it will become a major selling format for e-books... but only when they go color.
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