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Waterstone's reveals Sony Reader sales

15.01.09 | Graeme Neill

Waterstone's has sold "almost 30,000" units of e-book device the Sony Reader, following its launch in the stores at the beginning of September. It is the first time the retailer has divulged the number sold.

The figure was revealed by managing director Gerry Johnson as the chain reported its Christmas performance, with like-for-like sales down 2% over the five-week Christmas period. Priced at £200, the Sony Reader would added £6m to Waterstone's top line, which dropped 3.2% over the 10 weeks to 3rd January.

Johnson added that there had been an upsurge in post-Christmas traffic to the website as a result of the Christmas sales. In December, The Bookseller revealed exclusively that Sony had sold 300,000 of its Reader devices globally since the digital device was launched in October 2006

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By grisWold

Did Waterstone's also mention the price hike (

Thu, 27/01/2011 - 13:52
By grisWold

bacause? I meant 'because', so sorry. Be still, my ancient fingers.

Thu, 27/01/2011 - 13:52
By RobC

grisWold: The Kindle is, by many accounts, inferior to the Sony e-reader. It certainly looks pig-ugly.

Thu, 27/01/2011 - 13:52
By Gerry Mandering

So hang on, Waterstone's have reported poor sales over Christmas but within those sales were 30,000 Readers at

Thu, 27/01/2011 - 13:52
By Terry Maunder

Waterstones underwhelmed me in liverpool as I struggled to find an assistant that even knew where the Sony stand was.Now an regular reader at 4.00am I find my PRS fantastic.Sad though that the Sony selectively claim of making downloads more available...they do not extend this to allowing access to the stateside site and the discounted classics range.Ok I can go to other sites like Pen University or project Gutenberg....but why?

Thu, 27/01/2011 - 13:52

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