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Originally Posted by fjtorres
There's room for different approaches; let's see how consumers vote with their wallets. Variety is good. Competition is good. Time will tell if we're looking at a killer product or roadkill.
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I don't think the Sony's are roadkill because there is a certain segment of the population who refuse to play Amazon's game.
From a mass consumer standpoint, they were roadkill the day the K3 was announced. Amazon and B&N have far, far superior shopping experiences, and both offer WiFi and 3G at prices lower than Sony's.
So, either build quality, touch features or ePub support are what set Sony readers apart from the competition and for most people these are not reasons to pay more to get less (from a pure reading experience). Obviously for people who need to do a lot of annotation and note taking, the touch features are indispensable and worth the extra $$ but again, that's a very small segment of the marketplace.
Obviously these readers were in the works when the K3 was announced or I suspect Sony might have taken a different approach.