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Adam · 05-07-2006, 12:24 AM

Most likely I will not get the sony reader for one reason, Sony's buisness model. The sony reader says it will display all these different formats but to do that you need to convert to their propeitary (sp?) format. Take a look at what they did with the psp. there were hacks make for the platform that let it do a lot of stuff. What did sony do? they fixed it so that all that functionality went away and even went further so that you had to "upgrade" to play the games that were comming out. Sony absolutly hates any kind of competition. So if ebooks become popular in the non drm formats, i wouldnt put it past them to upgrade their ebook format so that it will no longer convert from those sources. And you can bet that they will never allow the other drm formats to be able to play on their device so there goes the competition from all the other ebook venders like amazon.

05-07-2006, 12:24 AM	#8
Adam Enthusiast Posts: 26 Karma: 14 Join Date: May 2006	Sony's Buisness model Most likely I will not get the sony reader for one reason, Sony's buisness model. The sony reader says it will display all these different formats but to do that you need to convert to their propeitary (sp?) format. Take a look at what they did with the psp. there were hacks make for the platform that let it do a lot of stuff. What did sony do? they fixed it so that all that functionality went away and even went further so that you had to "upgrade" to play the games that were comming out. Sony absolutly hates any kind of competition. So if ebooks become popular in the non drm formats, i wouldnt put it past them to upgrade their ebook format so that it will no longer convert from those sources. And you can bet that they will never allow the other drm formats to be able to play on their device so there goes the competition from all the other ebook venders like amazon.