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ucfgrad93: we just finished filming the comparison video, and will likely put it up tomorrow (Saturday night isn't a great time to push new articles).
Zarich: The written review will be up in a day or two. When we do the video review first, we can't edit it afterward to say "visit our site for the full review", so we have to put it in there at the start.
I don't agree that a closed ecosystem and loss of choice is ever good. Even though a shopper has choice with the Nook STR, that shopper could choose to use only the B&N store on the device and find what they want and leave as you mentioned. In fact, I bet a lot of non-techie types do just that. But for those who wish to shop for better prices, specials or content not available on B&N, it's nice to have that option. Also, it means that you may be able to change brands of ereader in the future if several brands all support the same formats. Some Sony Reader folks defected to the Nook or Kobo reader for example, while Amazon folks who can't/won't do format conversion and DRM removal can't switch to another brand E-ink reader. The whole file format mess, brand-locking and DRM mimics the early days of MP3 players. Hopefully one day we'll see common shared formats and non-DRM ebooks just as we now have non-DRM music in two fairly standard formats (MP3 and AAC).
-Lisa
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