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Old 08-11-2008, 12:54 PM   #28
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Originally Posted by vivaldirules View Post
rhadin, can you say what sources of content you are considering that is readable on the Sony Readers and not sold by Sony but which is not readable on the Kindle? I personally don't see these as "neck and neck" but maybe there are sources that I'm not aware of.
What I mean is that you can go to to virtually any ebook seller, or to any of the free book places, and download a book in a format that the Sony can read. As I understand it, and I'll gladly admit that I may be wrong, you cannot do the same for Kindle.

When it is said that there are 145,000 titles available for the Kindle but only 45,000 for the Sony, the Sony numbers exclude, for example, those titles that Sony doesn't carry but Fictionwise, Project Gutenberg, Manybooks, etc., do carry that are easily downloaded to and read on the Sony. I would expect Amazon whose primary business is bookselling to stock more titles than Sony whose primary business is electronics, but overall availability is what counts when discussing content, not availability from a single source.
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