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Originally Posted by thaoula
I gave Dymocks George St a call and asked to speak to some one about the new reader they are looking to introduce. Apparently the device they have selected is the IRex Iliad.
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Well done for taking the direct approach and putting us out of our misery
This is really disappointing as I don't think its going to work with such an expensive device. The iRex has always struck me as the kind of device that is perfect for someone who primarily reads non-fiction and reads with some kind of objective - student, professional etc.
Dymocks, although having a big non-fiction section, are not at all what I'd call a technical bookseller - ie if you want a non-fiction book on a subject beyond entry amateur level - then you don't find them, or at least a good range of them (have found the odd random one) at Dymocks. Your best bet is a specialist bookstore or better and cheaper still - Amazon.
What Dymocks do really well is sell fiction and books that are to be read for pleasure and to me the Sony and the Cybook are far more suited to reading fiction and reading for pleasure where you don't really need to take notes and them being cheaper, smaller and lighter.
ebooks.com has a lot of the more academic and technical titles available and it would make sense for them to sell Iliad but for Dymocks to entice people away from paper, it just isn't going to work.
I was in there the other day and there is a deal on where you can by 3 paper books for the price of 2. I found 3 that I liked and 2 of them aren't even available as ebooks (because I've searched before).
Why would I fork out $900 for a device and then still not be able to read what I want - there is just no incentive for me to change my ways??
(that's me pretending to be joe public instead of a gadget freak who hates the space paper books take up and the weight of holding them when lying in bed
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Not to mention that my Mum (an even more avid reader of books who I have no hope of convincing to go digital -she doesn't see the need or the point) is going out tomorrow to buy the entire Phillip Pullman Dark Materials trilogy tomorrow and is going to lend them to me when she's finished. I'm swapping with her the book that I'm reading now. Can't do that with ebooks...yet...