This is the best news...
Aside from the difficulties with the sony not being officially available here and bookeen's decision to charge Aussies in euros (and lots of em!), what is holding me back from upgrading from my old palm is the current lack of Australian authors who publish in ebooks. When I started looking at the last half a dozen books that I had read and/or wanted to read (not all were Australian but quite a few were) NONE of them were available as ebooks.
Hopefully this help speed up some changes.