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Originally Posted by mrsp
A web browser is not a device
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True, but an "internet tablet" might be - I think this is the angle Jon was suggesting: a screened device with wifi and a sogtware browser, for instance. Everyone's (quite rightly) second-guessing the (dis/mis)information from the original story.
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and Ebooks.com are not a European manufacturer
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True again!
Aren't they the Western Australian mob?
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so I think there is more to come on this.  
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You and me both, mate. You and me both.
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...I also have suspicions that the device from the european manufactuer will be an Illiad. If it is, I don't think it will work because its just too expensive to be attractive to Dymocks customers.
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It seems to me ("I can feel it in my waters") that it might be an Iliad. I would probably buy one, but I have to say they're going to have a hard sell coming on the news of the Kindle's price. I know they're significantly different, but as a going concern the "great unwashed" of Australia have only that to compare to (as we know, American news is Australian news half the time, so a hell of a lot of folks know about the Kindle down this way).
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Also I don't think the local telcos would be nearly as accomodating in doing deals like Amazon have done so it will probably involve an expensive relationship with Telstra.
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Is there any other kind?
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And if not Telstra it won't work for me as where I live they are the only ones with a decent network. At $85 a gigabyte for wireless, its no wonder price is a big issue for me in buying a reader - I spend my money just keeping connected 
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To be honest, I'm not really interested in the device as a "connected" device, except perhaps wifi, but just to locally connect to my own router. That's just me but.
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I hope they do announce something more before Christmas given that they originally said they hoped to have it for sale before then.
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I'll offer as a final phrase (since this is my third reply in this thread in a row), a very non-etiquette "Me too!".
Cheers,
Marc (who is going to buy a Palm T|X in the interim, just to keep his buzz going)