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Maike13, you're presuming that the ebook market is a zero-sum game -- i.e. each Nook sold means one less Kindle sold. That's very unlikely to be the case, given how small the ebook market is. Even if an individual is only going to get one or the other, more likely is that B&N's entry will just expand the market.
Amazon has had plenty of competition, by the way, mainly from Sony -- who put out their readers a full year earlier. Amazon just blew past them in fairly short order.
And B&N, Sony and Amazon are all reacting to each other's moves at the moment. That's how "competition" works, and to me it's a sign of a lot of energy and interest in the field.
The real problem with any evaluation is that no one is releasing sales data; retailers are obfuscating and everyone else is left guessing....
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