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Old 11-23-2009, 06:19 PM   #80
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Originally Posted by Kali Yuga View Post
In terms of the importance of US book sales, keep in mind that in 2008 the US made up close to 1/3 of the global book sales revenues (around $36 bn out of $119 bn iirc). It's also the single largest unified market, as far as I can tell.



Ehh, it's just a commercialized marketing and branding mentality, but it's mostly meaningless. It would really only be a problem if you purchase a reader and the company either goes bust or drops support for their ereaders.

That seems a tad more likely for Sony and B&N than Amazon, but I'd still regard that as an unlikely scenario.
It's not the reader that is important it's the file type and convergence. Amazon is on the outs more and more daily.
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