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Originally Posted by pwalker8
Actually, the switch by Sony from LRF/LRX to epub was more of a last gasp effort than a turning point. Amazon already had most of the market by that point.
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No.
Look up the dates.
(I did.)
Sony announced their switch to epub long before Amazon had established itself.
They froze *themselves*.
If they had spent that year-plus improving their ebookstore instead of waiting on ADE they could've survived the switch to near cost pricing. Their plan was to sell (high margin) hardware and let others sell the (lower margin) ebooks. That collapsed when Nook pushed the market to near cost hardware.
After that, they spent years trying to justify higher-priced hardware ina market looking for low-cost readers and later trying to make readers cheap enough to make even a profit from.
Seriously, their pivot to epub in 2008 is what ensured their defeat.
At the point Amazon wasn't even shipping Kindles because they were sold out.
Sonys were in Borders, B&N, online...
They had the market by the throat and blew it because they got standards religion.
For an entire year Sony sold hardware that promoted an ebook format they didn't sell. That was the year Amazon spent growing their ebookstore and establishing themselves as market leaders. Sony spent it rebooting.