[dugbug]

Originally Posted by manchuia

Harry is in the UK. Whispernet is useless to him as it wont work over there. Most of your examples (except the store) wouldn't really work in his situation.

There is another thread on the selection. It seems while numbers are large for amazon, they may be misleading. Check the Sony forum for the topic I am talking about.

The only example unavailable to him is purchasing on the fly.

Every book I was interested in was cheaper than sony:

Silverberg book of skulls:
http://ebookstore.sony.com/product/4...000036892.html

vs

http://www.amazon.com/The-Book-of-Sk...2859438&sr=1-1


Here is a nice example. Freakonomics is $14.00 on the sony store:

http://ebookstore.sony.com/product/4...000048113.html

and $10.00 on kindle:

http://www.amazon.com/Freakonomics-R...2859597&sr=1-1

How about "Going Postal": $6.39 on Kindle

http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_ss_ki...s=going+postal

$7.19 on the Sony:
http://ebookstore.sony.com/product/4...000072232.html

It goes on and on. The out-of-copyright multiple publisher bit does inflate kindle #s, but not in any significant way for me. Lets keep with the in-copyright examples from above:

Robert Silverberg has 84 unique titles available on the Kindle. On the Sony Store he has 71 titles. Even with his short stories which can be bought individually, you have sony offering them at 0.99:

http://ebookstore.sony.com/product/4...000078250.html

and 0.69 on Amazon:

http://www.amazon.com/The-Sixth-Pala...2860448&sr=1-1


Your mileage may vary.. Sony may offer an author's works cheaper that matter to you, but either the book was not even available on the Sony or it was more expensive.



For an example of a title that is not available on the Sony, take Heinlein's "Double Star":
http://www.amazon.com/Double-Star/dp...2861007&sr=1-1

I fully expect publishers to make their works available to multiple storefronts... after all, it takes little effort on their part to do so. So selection will eventually level out.


-d