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Originally Posted by Grizzlish
When I was researching e-readers prior to my purchase, I was trying to decide between a Nook and a Kindle. I didn't even know Sony was making an e-reader, that's how little press it must get.
Looks like Sony may have another Betamax on its hands. I did see a Sony reader of some sort gathering dust at Best Buy, while Nooks and Kindles were hard to find in stock. I didn't catch the number, though, what would be the point?
With the few warts it does have, the Kindle is to me a homerun. I can live without ePub format, and even then Calibre converts almost everything you throw at it. DRM is one thing it won't touch from what I understand, but there are so many books out there no one person could possibly read them all in a lifetime.
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I'm willing to bet you're in the US. (Easy really - availability of the Nook, plus reference to BestBuy.) For those of us outside the US, ePub is the format of preference, which means that the eReaders in the stores here include Sony, Bookeen and a few others you've probably not heard much of.
Reason is fairly simple - availability of ebooks in languages other than English is pretty much limited to ePub, leastwise here in Europe. Though we can buy Kindles (in many, not all, countries), Amazon's selection is largely English language.
It remains to be seen how much of a selection Amazon will be able to offer from their German Kindle store. So far, they only offer about 3,000 titles in French (from the German store, this is) which suggests they may be having difficulty securing distribution rights from the French publishers. And their ebooks in English are only a fraction of what's available from the main (.com) site.