Thread: Sony closes USA and Canada ebook store
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Old 02-07-2014, 07:31 AM   #81
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Originally Posted by ProfCrash View Post
Sony is giving up in the US and Canada but not other locations.
For now.
Sony is at the end of their financial rope.
Selling the PC business, spinning off TVs, abandoning ebooks in NorthAm; that's just the beginning.
Sony can no longer afford to throw (expensive borrowed) money at zombie product lines. Their chief assets are the Playstation empire, their patents, their Spider-Man movie license, and their fading brand. Their liabilities are everything else.
Expect serious retrenchment.
They might even get out of the lead acid consumer battery business!

More seriously: I doubt there will ever be a T4 and I suspect they'll shut down the other ebookstores once they clear out the T3 inventories.
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