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Originally Posted by fjtorres
I'm sick and tired of their fanboys/girls/whatever.
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Hey! Hey! Hey!
Hold your horses!
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I* am one of Sony fanboys. ;-)
Just look up some of my posts from the time when PRS-500 was the only e-ink reader a mere mortal could afford. At that time USA price for PRS-500 was $350 and the dollar was 50% more expensive here than it is today (I had to pay the same money for 1$ that 1Euro costs here now).
I look at the current situation with mixed feelings.
Do you know that mixed feelings mean?
It is when you see your mother in law falling from the cliff in your new car ;-)
I am happy that e-books are becoming more and more mainstream, I am happy that publishers won't be able to ignore or sabotage the e-book market anymore.
I am happy that the prices of e-ink readers are starting to become reasonable.
I am very wary of Amazon and their attempt to crush competition and become an unbridled e-book monopoly. We have seen what they did to Mobipocket.
I am unhappy that companies like PocketBook with clearly superior products have to fight for their life with several 1000 pound gorillas. I am unhappy that "little" hardworking people, like Guys in Kiev are caught in the middle of the war between Kindle, Nook and Kobo.
There *is* hope.
Kobo is manufactured by Netronix (that is called PocketBook global nowadays), and Netronix is one of biggest e-ink reader manufacturers, so PocketBook does have some muscle behind them.