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Originally Posted by jęd
Well... Now I'm glad I bought an illiad...! I wouldn't have been able to buy any books for the Sony Reader on either my Mac laptop or Ubuntu desktop.
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This just proves Sony still doesn't grasp their customer base for this product:
1. Prius owners, already proving they will spend $12,000 more to drive a car that costs more CO2/petroleum to make (vs a non-hybrid) than it will save in emissions/petroleum...
2. Early Adopters that actually read books (rather than web content.)
3. High powered executives whom will buy it precisely because it is so economically impractical, but "cool".
No one else is going to pay $$$ for the Reader at this point. I mean Sony will give a 20% discount off list for their DRM'd ebooks and Amazon will sell you the paper version for 30% to 50% off?
How large a percentage of that market are Mac users?
I'd put the percentage at around 50%, so in effect they just kissed off half their potential customer base for the product.
