Don't know if you all saw the post by Nate the Great up in News:
https://www.mobileread.com/forums/showthread.php?t=46695
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Originally Posted by Nate the great
I decided to take a few minutes and pass on a few tidbits.
Microsoft isn't here, nor is Amazon or Mobipocket. But I did get a few minutes with Bookeen.
They have a special firmware with both DE and Mobipocket support. Amazon won't let them release it. But I did get few details on their plans. They plan to maintain 2 firmwares, DE and Mobipocket. Both firmwares will continue to be developed, and both will have folder support.
Bookeen is also looking for a brick and mortar retailer in the US, and this is where things get interesting. We were sharing a table with someone from Ingram Digital, and he said that Target has decided to only carry Sony Readers, and that Costco (in attendance at DB09) had already made a decision on which reader to carry. He's under a NDA, so he couldn't tell me which reader.
But he could say that the Kindle has sold just over 300k, and that the Sony Reader has outsold the Kindle by about 25%.
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