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Originally Posted by DDHarriman
In my opinion Bookeen is the David in a Golias little world (Sony and Amazon at least).
They have a good product, that’s why people are buying the thing and are a willing to pay the fortune they are asking - sorry but the 350 euros I paid for the reader versus the 199 euros I would pay for the Sony 505 if I was buying in the US at the actual rate of 1,5 US per euro is an assault to our pockets - but they should be furiously working in making it better by making upgrades and relating to the help of costumers very soon, or they will be eaten alive.
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Bookeen have been in the eBook business for many years longer than either Sony or Amazon. I suspect they will be in the eBook business long after Sony have pulled out of it (I'm not so sure about Amazon - I think they're in it for keeps).
Yes, we'd all like a firmware upgrade to fix the few minor bugs which the device has (crashing on dictionary lookup, font issues, bookmark problems, etc) but there's nothing wrong with it that's a "show stopper" to my mind. It's certainly in far better shape than the Sony Reader was when it was initially released.
Bookeen have said that a firmware release will be available shortly. I suggest we leave them in peace to get on with it, rather than moaning about it. It would be counter-productive for them to say "it'll be released on such-and-such a date" because then everyone would complain if it were late (which such things generally are). I can entirely understand why it is that they are keeping quiet about it. Let them release it when it's ready.
They are selling every machine they can get their hands on. There's obviously nothing
too wrong with their business model given that that is the case.