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Originally Posted by deekbee
I've noticed a slight improvement in availability, but at the end of the day regardless of quality, the Sony Readers are being well and truly beaten on price - and to a certain extent high street availability of the Kindle.
Our local Tesco - they have both kindle variants in stock at a "limited" price that basically is the rrp.
Call into PC World, and on their display of various tablet devices, they have both the kindle and the PRS-350 & 650.
The Sony Readers are considerably more expensive than the Kindle, but with no real selling point over and above the Kindle - I hate to say it, but I really do feel as though the Kindle has almost got the e-Reader market to itself.
Well, that and the fact that I found yesterday that Jerry Pournelles latest in the Mote in gods eye series is only available in print and kindle form - its not available for any other platform, at least not yet.
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I agree that the Sony seems to have disappeared from the mainstream shops which has left the market wide open for Amazon to exploit. Unfortunately for Sony the general public will get sucked into buying a Kindle because of its subsidised price, they know no better.
I did have a quick look at the Kindle myself when the 650 was in short supply but decided against it for various reasons. From what I read I could not be fully confident that I would not end up with a device that was locked into the Amazon store. I like to have my device independent of any service, I get my books from the sources I want and not those specified by the manufacturer.
Neither my 600 or my 650 are registered with Sony or Adobe and that's the way they will stay. I would rather pay a little more for a better built device that I know I can use how I want and not how someone else tells me to!
As I said earlier we will just have to wait and see what happens.