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Originally Posted by devilsadvocate
Thanks, that's what I thought. I also seem to recall a confluence of events concerning that and the ever-popular agency pricing model the big houses have recently adopted.
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Well, some of the big houses. Random House is a notable exception. I'm not going to open that can of worms here. It's being discussed at length elsewhere.
But an advantage of a multi-function device is that it broadens what you can read. Dedicated readers tend to have limitations in reading DRM protected content, the biggest being that they will support only one form of DRM, so you can read DRM protected Mobi titles, or DRM protected ePub, but not both. (The devices I'm aware of that support Mobi and ePub are based on the open source FBReader app, which rolls its own support for both formats, and doesn't support DRM.)
With a multi-function device, you might be able to install both the Kindle app and the B&N app, and read DRM protected books in either format sourced from either vendor. Of course, then you run into what I deal with on my PDA - I have viewers for Plucker, eReader, MobiPocket, PDF, Word/RTF and plain text documents, and must remember what documents are in what format, viewed by what reader.
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Dennis