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Originally Posted by dhbailey
Was the Librie ever sold in the US? If so, I totally missed that.
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Officially it was "Japan Only", but a lot of "Not Japan" folks imported it, like is happening currently with the Reader for "Not U.S." folks.
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Originally Posted by dhbailey
Was the librie using eInk technology? If not, then the Sony Reader would, in my opinion, still be first-generation.
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Oh, yes, indeedy deed it was -- same panel as the Reader, apparently.
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Originally Posted by dhbailey
It doesn't really matter, though because there really wasn't any sort of marketing hype along the lines that computer makers go through when they put a new chip in their next generation of computes.
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Aside from a few magazine spots, and spots in airports, etc., and, of course, the actual brick & mortar retail outlets, there hasn't been much marketing hype on the Reader ... besides the blogosphere, and we've mostly done
that to ourselves.
