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Originally Posted by ScalyFreak
Something that I think may not have occurred to everyone yet: Sony may not consider the US market to be nearly as important as we do. For all we know may be planning to get the bulk of their profits from Asia and/or Europe, and the US market and consumers get lip service because in the bigger Sony scheme of things we're not as important?
If that is their assumption, that would explain a lot.
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Maybe "important" isn't the right word. Perhaps they see that they can't compete very well with readers that are sold at very low margins or even at a loss to drive business to channeled US ebook stores. They can compete more effectively everywhere else where the device prices aren't subsidized by ebook sales. So, that's where they focus their efforts.