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In early October, Sony made a public promise to attempt to reach 100,000 titles for sale at their ebook store by the end of the year. Today, they are far short of that goal. In the past two weeks Sony have added about 2000 new titles (a 3.7% increase) and now have about 58,700 ebooks for sale for the Readers. (Note again that previous totals for Sony that I listed in this thread before Nov., 2008 included the sum of books in all categories which included roughly 3500 double-counts). They have added an average of about 90 new ebooks per day to their store since Sept., 2007.
In the same period Amazon have added approximately 4500 new titles (a 2.1% increase) and now have about 218,000 ebooks for sale for the Kindle with an average of 317 new ebooks per day added to their offerings since Nov., 2007.
I've posted biweekly information here for over a year and there's been no significant change in the trend at Sony since Sept., 2007. So I'm going to suspend keeping this up for now and find something more productive to do with my time - like read!
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