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Originally Posted by pilotbob
I think Sony is going to announce that they are removing DRM from their full catalog and will sell all books in ePub format...
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The sad thing about that comment is not just that it won't happen but that it won't happen
despite the fact that it would be a huge commercial success.
My wife loves her 505 but she's shielded from the fact that the selection is so limited by the fact that I can format-shift for her. Not everyone can do that.
Sony's past is littered with examples of how their paranoid devotion to tying their devices to protected formats relegates them to the margins, despite the fact that their hardware is often superior - as is the 505 to my Cybook, by a mile. Would the iPod be where it is today if Sony hadn't tied their original player to a proprietary format? I would I still be buying Vaio laptops if they hadn't gone out of their way to fit a DVD drive hard-wired not to play my (legally obtained) region one DVDs.
They have real chance to challenge Amazon's potential dominance but I expect them to blow it again.