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Originally Posted by Alexander Turcic
Jaapjan, this question came also up and according to the Sony rep, expansion outside North America is something they are looking into, but it's currently not feasible due to the complicated licensing schemes they have with their publisher partners. In other words, and this is only my interpretation, Sony would only want to sell the Reader outside the States if they were also able to directly sell e-books along with it.
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Well I am sick and tired of this BS
Not sure who to blame more, Sony or publishers. Look how Applie kicked azz of music companies and created a massive ubiquitous market. Sure music companies are complaining but they are still making a lot of money.
I would like to purchase 505, but in light of these restrictions and unknown future outside of US, I'll just go with Bookeen. I have plenty of tecnical manuals and documentation in PDF format. For others the paperback format is not much more expensive than eBook version and as compact as eReaders. As pointed out before, we are not really saving that much money from eBooks vs pBooks.
Seems to me the biggest looser here is Sony itself, which is pity as they did a fairly good job thus far. They are keeping the door wide open for Bookeen and other competitors by excluding non-US markets. Guess what happens tomorrow when subprime crisis, followed by oil crisis and trade deficit crisis pushes US into recession. When americans are loosing their houses the last thing they'll be shopping for is 505. Sony is really shooting itself in the foot here by not diversifying their market to non-US.
Rant done
