After an absence of some months now, Darty (the rough equivalent of BestBuy here in France) has the Sony 650 on its website, listed as in stock both online and in stores.
I suspect Sony is allocating what 650's they do have to the markets where they think they are most needed/appreciated. BestBuy also doesn't sell e-books, whereas Darty does (and in ePub format). If there is a shortage of eInk screens, I figure Sony owes the popular readers to the countries where the stores are providing the reading material as well as the readers.
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