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I said it before. I was a big fan of the Sony ereaders, but I am talking about the 650 and 950 series. I have been waiting for years for Sony to catch up to the likes of Kobo, but instead their ereader division manager told 'me' in an interview I did not want a larger screen, frontlit ereader, and a larger internal memory. But of course I did, so I bought a Kobo Aura HD instead. I never looked back.
I still own my brushed aluminum Sony PRS950, and still feel it is the prettiest ereader on the planet with a lot of excellent features. I would buy an upgraded version without thinking twice and would even be prepared to pay more than for a competitor device.
In the Netherlands the Sony ereader was the most popular brand, but now I see everybody with Kobo's and many of them are Aura HD's. People want frontlighting, despite what Sony tells them they want. Sony destroyed their own ereader market. It is pure mismanagement. Nothing else. They don't understand their own customers despite the fact that they only would have had to read the comments on their own ereader forum where the fans of the prs-650 and 950, who would have liked a true successor to these great devices, reside in misery.
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