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Originally Posted by ProfCrash
I am thrilled that you are happy with your Sony. I am thrilled that folks are happy with their Nooks, Kobos, and IPads. You should be happy with the device that you read on . . .
2) That Amazon is not the only preventing their books from being read on other e-readers. BN and Apple cannot be read on other EPub devices unless you strip DRM . . .
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I think that potential Sony buyers can rest assured that B&N has already figured out that they need to fix their DRM compatibility issues with other EPUB readers, because having their own Nook readers able to read books from the other guy's bookstores, while B&N can't also sell to those other customers who are using Sony, Kobo, or other e-readers is just plain STUPID.
In effect B&N is currently seeing all the
disadvantages of supporting the open EPUB format (you can loose sales to other stores), WITHOUT ALSO SEEING THE ADVANTAGES (B&N being able to sell to customers owning other EPUB compatible readers).
And on the subject of chillin out and enjoying my reader . . .
I do enjoy my Sony. Enjoy it enormously. As I said, I had a chance to check out both the PRS-650 and Kindle 3 before choosing the Sony, and have had no reason to regret my decision.
On the other hand, both my brother in law and sister own Kindle 3s that they purchased months before I bought my Sony, and I can honestly report that when they were both checking out the touch screen interface on my PRS-650, there was this distinct "did I buy the right one?" look on both their faces. I guess it was cruel, because my sister was noticing things like the fact that the Sony actually has a decent audio player built in with a nice GUI interface (she likes to get audio books in MP3 format from the library and the Kindles MP3 player is damn near useless for playing music or non-audible purchased audio books).
No kidding, it was sad to watch.
In the end I felt so bad that I found myself struggling to list all of the things that the Kindle had going for it, or that the Sony was missing.
"PRS-650 doesn't have ANY internet", "Doesn't have that text-to-speech thing where it will read to you either." "And, on the Sony, I don't have as many font options like line spacing like the Kindle..."
That cheered them up a little (but not much)
