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Originally Posted by rhadin
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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Books that are available at Fictionwise and Manybooks are in Mobipocket format which can be read directly on the Kindle. Aside from what's available at the Sony and Amazon sites, I think that the number of ebooks available for the Kindle and the Sony Readers are roughly equivalent. That means that if the 145,000 and 45,000 figures are correct for those two sites, then we Sony owners have significantly fewer titles available to us.