Thread: Reasons I'm not getting a Kindle but the Sony 505 instead.
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Old 01-05-2008, 07:57 AM   #175
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Originally Posted by Kingston View Post

The point of all this blather is that you poor folk supporting Sony ereader products are doomed. Amazon has the muscle and the wherewithall to make their product a success. Not to mention the much greater variety of books to choose from. Sony just can't provide the content that Amazon can, and they will eventually bow out due to market pressures. Sony is like RCA or any other huge company. They just want to see profits in the bottom line.With Amazon gobbling their market share the Sony reader will be gathering dust in 10 years or less along with my Sony TiVo and Sony WebTV.

Yes they will continue to support the old readers, but you can bet your booties that Sony will be a fond memory in the ereader sweepstakes within 5-7 years.
Unfortunatelly I agree with you, however, I disagree with a line in bold. At least it is not applicable to me. I do not support Sony reader. In 3-4 years whatever we bought today, be it Sony or CyBook or Kindle, will become obsolete. There are will be newer and better readers. Which one will be better and available to me? No idea. Almost sure it will not be Sony because it will be dwarfed by Amazon. All that said, I bought Sony reader today because IMHO it is the best ebook reader that we have today. I am not buying DRMed LRFs but I would not buy DRMed Kindle or Mobipocket books as well. I would have to buy LIT books for any reader I bought today. In that case I choose Sony because its hardware implementation is far superior to any other readers. I do not support Sony, I buy what is convenient for me.
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