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Originally Posted by pilotbob
What the availability of eReader books compared to Mobipocket/Amazon/Sony? Does anyone know. eReader seems to have the least restrictive DRM, but do they have the same amount of books as some of the others?
BOb
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Some way back in this massive thread, Jack B. Nimble reported the following:
"On the off chance some of you might want more empirical evidence, I did a quick search at BooksOnBoard.com, and they stock some 25k books for eReader and 80k for Mobi. Even Fictionwise, which owns eReader, stocks more secure Mobi books than eReader, though a smaller selection and much smaller difference (25k vs. 21k), however that may not be an accurate comparison as I do not know if they have finished incorporating all of the eReader stock into the Fictionwise site. The multiformat books at Fictionwise, downloadable in both these formats and several others, total 17k for both, of course.
"This is hardly a comprehensive survey, of course, but since those are the places I shop, it'll work for me."
The issue that was being addressed was how one unlocks an E-Reader file on a reader with no keyboard, given that in order to do so you have to key in your credit card number. Nobody seemed to know for sure, which rather undermines the case for the Mentor as opposed to the Mobipocket version. Then Jack's statistics seemed to point in the same direction. But I'm sure there must be more to it than this: I can't believe that Robertb and colleagues haven't thought about how to unlock E-Reader files.