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Originally Posted by AnemicOak
Amazon has basically the whole Mobipocket catalog which is nice & a few other things as far as books from more mainstream publishing sources. They also sell some e-publisher stuff that Sony doesn't offer, but is available for Sony through Fictionwise.
There's no doubt Amazon has more available then if you're buying books through Sony, but I'm not sure how much more they have that a general audience is going to care about. They do have the $9.99 bestseller deal which is nice (I'd rather pay a couple bucks more for a LIT that I can deDRM and make device independent).
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My experiment on a portion of my books (see post #82 in this thread) didn't find that many more ebooks at Amazon compared to Sony for things that interested me. But a few instances were notable. Amazon had many more books than Sony that were by Asimov and Niven, for example. If that's a general trend, it may be that once an author succumbs to having his books published in digital form, Amazon convinces them to do so for most or all of their books, while Sony, for some reason, is content to sell just a few of the author's titles. I don't understand this, but it might account for much of the difference in the total offerings between these two vendors.