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Are Sony's Days In Ebooks Numbered?

Posted at 7:45AM Friday 03 Feb 2012

Sony once aimed its sights at being a big player in digital publishing. It even entered into one of those 'exclusive trade deals' with UK retailer Waterstones. However it failed to deliver the list, didn't not develop a plausible platform and lost the eink world to Kindle.

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