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Originally Posted by AndiR
Having just acquired a new PRS (I was very, very close to getting an Iliad) I was thinking about ebook purchasing options.
What value does a Sony formatted ebook purchased from their store have over say a .lit or .mobi formated book?
I know there are legality "issues" here but I am more interested in the formating / portability side of things?
With my previous PRS my family spend around 400 USD at the connect store but as I am just about to recieve a new unit I was interested to get some different opinions.
I am non US based and so this might influence the decision?
What do others think?
Thanks from a sunny Spain, AndiR
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Well... The number one reason
not to buy from the Sony bookstore is that they don't want my money!
If they can't be bothered to support my platform of choice,
I can't be bothered to spend any $$ with them.
Instead, I purchase from Baen
& Fictionwise
and a variety of other publishers. I purchase only DRM-free books whenever possible. I buy the occasional .lit file because I know I can unlock it*. I've lost one batch of books to DRM that wasn't compatible with my next ebook hardware -- that'll
NEVER happen again, because I
WILL NOT have any more DRM-crippled books. Ever.
Of course, even if Sony fixed their little platform problem (perhaps by going with a Web-based store that supported actual *gasp*
standards) they'd still face the problem that their prices are out of whack**. I expect to pay $6 or less for a newly released eBook (we're talking fiction here -- non-fiction may be quite different). Publishers who expect to get more are smoking funny-and-probably-illegal substances...
Xenophon
* Note that breaking this DRM is legal where I live (although telling others how to do the same is not -- go figure). Also, I do not upload, share, or otherwise "pirate" any of the books I have unlocked -- it's for future-proofing, NOT for more nefarious purposes.
** This problem may well lie more with publishers than with Sony, but still...