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Connect Books vs Connect Music
According to Sony Corp. CEO Howard Stringer at CES today: "U.S. sales of the Sony Reader, an electronic book reader, is also doing better than the company expected, Stringer said. Sales of downloadable e-books are exceeding the sales of music on Sony's online Connect Store." (From AP)
How successful are Sony E-Books sales if the success is relative in comparison to the disaster that is Connect music? Are sales so mundane that CEO Stringer has to spin the figures against a known failure?
Why not just say we sold so many readers and so many books?
If Sony worried about the user experience and fixed its Connect software, maybe such comparisons would be meaningful. If the Reader software is in fact an improvement over the music software - as was mentioned above - then this comparison might be more a measure of disatisfaction with the music software vs the reader software rather than a measure of the Readers' success.
Why is all the obfuscation necessary? This can't be good news for Reader owners.
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