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Originally Posted by BettyE
Everyone wants to keep the consumable revenue stream coming, so they offer trade-ins so the customer doesn't switch to a competitor's printer (and subsequent competitor's consumables).
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That's an excellent point, but Sony has on several occasions said that their bookstore exists to support the Reader, not the reverse. A few other tidbits here and there make me lean towards believing they more or less mean it ... in as much as one can tell what marketing folks ever mean, of course.
If that's the case, and opening the platform up to other formats so radically certainly supports the idea, I doubt their primary concern is keeping us from buying books from other folks. Remember they allowed RTF from the beginning, and they reportedly tried to get Mobi on board, but Amazon won't share its toys with platforms that support formats
other than Mobi.
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Originally Posted by BettyE
There may be a new Kindle coming out in the Fall so we will see how much current Kindle owners are killed (including me).
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I hope that they won't be, but there is always that possibility, unfortunately.
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Originally Posted by BettyE
... this e-book business is a bit painful until it grows up.
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That's the unfortunate nature of most of this technology stuff, they don't call it the "bleeding edge" for no reason. Chasing the shiny always brings some pain. It ain't fun ... but it's so darned
shiny! 