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Old 09-27-2006, 11:38 AM   #31
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Originally Posted by NatCh
I'm guessing that there may be some pressure inside Sony not to sell the hardware outside the U.S. (like from Tokyo, which may not want an American reader to do better than the Japanese one did ).
I don't think this is one of the reasons. I doubt the american Reader will be of any popularity in Japan, since it doesn't have Japanese fonts or Japanese interface. Also, the Japanese prefer their own gadgets to foreign ones, probably the only exception being Apple.
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