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Originally Posted by Alexander Turcic
Battle? What battle you may ask. Sure, most of us were blown away by the overall success of the Amazon Kindle. The question is, why did Sony not have the same success with the Sony Reader, which was launched one year before the Kindle?
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It would be easier to know whether this is a genuine question if we actually had sales figures for both, rather than the number of books available. On what basis does this article's author decide that the Kindle is more successful? I'm not disputing the conclusion, just saying it would be nice to have some solid facts.
I'm always intrigued that, according to the figures for people viewing the device-specific forums on MobileRead, by far the largest group is always Sony owners - often more than all the other devices combined. Puzzling if it's such a failure.