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This sounds like a feasible explanation of the error. Some journalists are not very numerate, it appears! (Alternatively, the firms that make coloured devices are prone to exaggerated claims.) Last edited by Patricia; 09-10-2009 at 08:18 AM. |
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I believe it's just missing the red part:
British ebook-store Interead sells £1m of its colourful Cool-er e-readers in its first months |
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Even if it is talking about £1m worth of Cool-ers sold, that just shows the level of this guys arrogance. "We've sold over 5,000 readers, so we can easily overtake the company that's sold well over 100x that amount." Basically he's just trying to promote his company as much as possible with little regard to the facts, which wouldn't be known to a casual reader of the Guardian anyways. They'll see him talking about how he thinks his company can easily overtake Sony (who they have heard of) and they'll say "Oh, these guys are a big player in the ebook market." I'm not sure if even robertb would make the types of claims this guy is making.
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Don't ascribe to malicious intent what can simply be explained by incompetence.
Niel Jones says to journo "Sales have reached the million mark", referring to turnover or profits.. Journo searches for a snappy headline and translates it to "We've sold a million units". He has every right to promote his business however he chooses. You have every right to ignore it. His target market is the people who pick up paperbacks with their weekly shopping trip. If that's not you, it doesn't serve any purpose being a snob about it. |
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I am skeptical too of the number of a million units, as the Cool-er website has had the device backordered for a while now.
1 million in sales, as in money coming in, sounds much more accurate to me. I think that the device has probably been selling relatively well, and eventually it could possibly take on Sony if its able to get distribution in physical stores. For those that aren't used to the idea of a ebook reader seeing on in person probably could push them in the direction of buying from them. Amy |
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Maybe they're talking store orders, but not reporting sell-through? Does sound awfully high though!
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i could easily believe 5000 units sold. in just few months for a niche product from a new company, that's still a pretty impressive, i'd say.
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YES, MOst likely the 1 mil of sales, instead of 1 mil of number of devices. LOL
A million unit is a large chunk of the whole market. there simply isn't enough screens around for 1 million ebooks for just one brand. Cool-er: a netronix clone is decent in specs poor in software reader, but ODM can't seem to produce enough of them ... I ordered mine early in august and only got mine until early sept. From industrial news i heard VPI is only starting to expend the Eink production line and won't expect to be up and running for another quarter (or more)! taiwan panel Giant AUO brought another epaper maker, also looking to massively expend production next year. |
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The Guardian has now published a correction:
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well, thats 6000 units at best!
Which is around 700 units per colour I am pretty sure demand exceed supply. Lil wonder why they still on back order! My bet was, Cooler and many other OEM readers will go back order until end of the year! |
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Therefore I blame this 100% on Niel Jones (whoever he is) for being too lazy to get the journo to give him a template + copy of the Guardian style guide so he could do a proper tailored press release ready to go straight into the paper. |
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