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Originally Posted by starrigger
I have a fiber optic connection myself. But I have trouble following the logic of the man who bought a second reader to avoid losing his books. 
Anyway, the poor performance of the store is just going to drive people to other stores. Although I did notice, to my surprise, that some books I was checking out were cheaper in the Sony store than elsewhere. |
Yeah. Obviously, he either doesn't know how or does not want to remove the DRM so he can device shift his older book. But with the high prices, low selection and abysmal customer experience, the Sony reader has a lot of negatives to overcome (and all the fanboys in the world may not be enough to counter that, although they are pretty active on some forums, just as they were with blu-ray when HD still was around -- Sony has learned some from Betamax, but marketing alone won't cut it if there are alternatives easier to use and cheaper as well). Hopefully he won't end up with a fancier betamax-equivalent in a few years (and those betamax movies were a lot harder to move to another platform).