Have you also considered the
Cybook Gen 3 as well? Or even the
Hanlin V3? Both are available in Australia (
DA Direct for both and the Iliad(s), or the Cybook & Iliads from that well-known bookseller chain whose name starts "Dy..."). The Iliad is offered in both "2nd Edition" and "Book Edition", the latter being slightly cheaper. If all you're after is something to read books on, and if in-book dictionary-lookup appeals to you, I'd highly recommend the
Cybook Gen 3 (I don't
think the
Hanlin V3 does in-book dictionary-lookup...though investigate it some if that feature interests you). If I had my way again, I'd likely be buying the Cybook (though I'm happy with the Iliad).
With all of these Australia-sold devices, you can look at Mobipocket books from stores internationally, where they can often be cheaper.
Fictionwise and
BooksOnBoard are the two most often mentioned, though there are
quite a few others who you can
check if they sell books in your required format. I don't recommend the "well-known bookseller chain" I mention above, because, for one, I think they're incompetent pillocks and don't in any way wish to encourage support of them, and secondly my limited experience with them is that they are expensive, but you check out their digital books if you wish (exchange rates have changed since I last looked). I note that
DA Direct also sell ebooks - I don't know how competitive they are, as I'm not a big purchaser of ebooks. I have purchased from both Fictionwise and BooksOnBoard, and have had no problems (and pleasant prices, inclusive of deductions via their respective rebate programs).
Which also leads me to the perhaps-obvious, which is the large range of public domain and "Creative Commons" books uploaded to
MobileRead itself. If ever you've had an interested in "Classics", or you're just looking for the unexpected nugget of new Creative Commons stuff, you can't go past those
ebooks uploaded by MobileRead members (who have almost certainly "tidied things up" in the ebooks, transforming the books, through their passion for it, into some of the best-formatted ebooks you will find
anywhere).
Cheers,
Marc