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Originally Posted by Grumpster
Both the Winmo and Android have a good selection of software, though if you'd like to purchase either Amazon or B&N books you'd almost have to go with the Android. It's unlikely that any future software will be developed for the current winmo platform and the future winmo 7 support is totally up in the air despite what bill gates would have you believe. Android software is very actively being developed these days.
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I can reassure anyone that cares: Freda will be released for Windows Phone 7 (development is already quite well advanced, so hopefully I will have it up and running in time for WP7's launch in 2010 Q4). I've actually got a commercial agreement with a book publishing site that will use this software, so you can be reasonably confident that I will deliver
In terms of reading purchased books, I suppose I should mention that if you buy a book in a DRM-protected EPUB format (such as B&N or Adobe Digital Editions) it is a fairly simple matter to remove the DRM protection from the book. It may be illegal, depending where you live, but it's not difficult. On account of it being potentially illegal I won't provide any detail beyond the obvious:
Search on Google for "how to remove drm protection from epub files".