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100,000+ Sony Readers sold in UK?
According to Sara Lloyd's blog at panmacmillan,
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According to Waterstone's staff, each store was sent four readers plus the demo model - no doubt flagship stores had more. Waterstones have 330 stores according to Wikipedia. Sales through stores possibly 3000, or a wildly extravagant 5000. That means 95,000 through the website...
100K sales means roughly one in every 250 households in the UK bought one by the first morning of the launch. I don't think so. And if there really were 100K new ebook purchasers around I suspect that rather than experiencing 'uplift' her website would have exploded. Prepared to eat my hat but I suspect a nought has been added to the sales figure somewhere along the line. |
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That does seem a lot to me. I'm sure that figures like that are achievable though.
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How many did they actually sell via the web though?
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Most probably they're not all from UK. I could imagine a lot of european want to get one from waterstone. As european guarantee is much easier than sending a defective one to america for repair.
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sonystyle.co.uk told me they had in 5000 and all were sold on pre-order........I know my 2 local waterstones branches had around 8 and 14 and they all sold within 3 days.
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Thats sooo not true! I heared from an inside contact at Waterstone that they only had 70 sony ereaders on pre-order.
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