Thread: No ePub for PRS-500, but Sony offers $100 trade-in credit to upgraders
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Old 08-10-2008, 09:49 AM   #91
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Location: NSW, Australia
Device: Sony Reader PRS500, PocketBook 360
So you are complaining because they brought out a better model? And my point wasn't that the only-in-the-US rule was good, or bad, but that you *knew* the rule and that you *knew* you have no support outside the US!

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Originally Posted by AprilHare View Post
Why we are complaining:
For the sake of being able to purchase ePub books and PDF reflow support we have to outlay on the order of $300 compared to people inside the US getting to pay merely $100, because Sony insists on these bizarre international border limitations.
The main benefit of ePub for me would be that I could purchase ebooks where I live, since the Sony Store is bricked off from us. I speak the same language as our US friends (besides "faucet" and "tap" and "gray" and "grey"); I live in a similar society; we have good trading and social relations with the US, including Americans who live and work here - but this silly arrangement is kept to humor lawyers and Sony executives at the expense of us, the international consumer.
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