Thread: Effect of Kindle on Sony's Content Offerings
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Old 08-17-2008, 05:04 PM   #137
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Originally Posted by vivaldirules View Post
I did a search today of dugbug's SciFi/Fantasy award winners: https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sho...156#post236156 Of the 437 titles, Amazon had 109 of them (25.0%) while Sony had 73 of them (16.7%). There's no excuse for that. Sony should sell every title that Amazon sells. There's no reason for them not too except their own laziness.
It might be interesting to see how many Kindle titles are available in any other electronic format. It would also be interesting to know who actually prepared the Kindle ebook files. Was it the publisher, or Amazon?

For that matter, who creates the LRF versions Sony makes available?

Bear in mind that before Sony, Amazon, or anyone else can offer an ebook, it must exist.

Amazon has enormous clout with publishers. If Amazon wants an ebook version of a title to sell for the Kindle, and one doesn't already exist, they can probably convince the publisher to provide the electronic files they can use to produce one. Will Sony have the same success?

I question whether the disparity is Sony's laziness, or the uphill battle in getting publishers to let Sony offer ebook titles at all.
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