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Originally Posted by Poppaea
Sometimes coming to this website feels like being in a time loop. We've had this discussion already.
Sonys are sold worldwide and they have agreements with shops in the respecitve languages all over the world. Kindle is English and since two weeks has a German kindle shop. Thats it.
So with a Sony you
- pay a premium price for a device you can shop with in whichever shop you like
- in whichever language you read
The typical user is not adept to circumvent the DRM scheme or the georestrictions that come with the Kindle. So either an international Kindle buyer does their reading in English or they get a device that is flexible in the where-to-buy-a-book and the which-language-to-buy-the-book-in.
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I'm aware of your arguments. However, I'm talking about the competitiveness of Sony vs Kindle, where Sony can certainly take some qualities/ideas from Amazon in order to gain some edge... because you can't really say that sony readers more popular are than kindle. And I say this personally having a prs-505, I love it and I really don't like the kindle design but the business model is another thing.