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Originally Posted by edsohsmith
A reason that people are so passionate about the Kindle offering is because of the bookstore not the device. Upon entering the ebook arena, Amazon immediately becomes the largest ebook seller in the world. If you do not own a Sony Reader, then the Sonny connect bookstore is irrelevant. This is not true of the Amazon bookstore. This is what makes Amazon's decision to ignore epub standards and to go with another proprietary DRM format tied to a single device so disappointing. Not unexpected, but disapointing.
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I agree. I was hoping for the epub standard and an extension to the Sony Reader that would allow me to purchase books from Amazon for my Sony Reader 505. I want to be able to jump to the next cool reader without leaving my book collection behind. You would think that Amazon would be interested in selling their e-books to Sony Reader users. I suspect that the problem is more with the publishers need to protect their content than Sony and Amazon wanting to lock people into their stores. I still hope that ebup makes it to prime time.