Having never registered my PRS-505 with the Sony Store, I've not had the pleasure (?) of shopping there. I buy most of my new-release books from Amazon since I own a Kindle. The rest of my shopping has been at Fictionwise and Baen/Webscriptions. Since I downloaded the free romances from Harlequin, I'm putting them onto the Sony to read. (Since I haven't registered my Sony, I don't have the software update for ePub support, so I've been converting them to .lrf in Calibre.)
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P.S. A little parenthesis here: I was also thinking of purchasing a Kindle 2 (my parents own a House in florida so it was doable for me), but the keyboard sorta scared me. The PRS-505 totally feels like a book if you hold it with the leather cover on, and that's what mattered the most to me.
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That's exactly how the Kindle feels -- at least the first edition. I turn the cover back, which leaves a 3/4 inch edge as a place to rest my thumb so I don't have to worry about where to hold the Kindle when reading. I also don't have a problem accidentally turning the pages except when I hand the Kindle to another person who isn't aware of where the controls are.
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Yeah sure browsing the Amazon store via the Kindle sounds like a good publicity, but once people actually discover how painfully horrible 3G network is, they're mostly gonna revert to shopping on Amazon.com via their real computers . Had the Kindle been more like the Sony (ie, smaller & no keyboard) it would've been my choice.
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I rarely use the 3G network except to accept the books that I've purchased. Most of the time I browse Amazon with my PC, purchase or select samples, and designate which Kindle should receive them. When it's convenient, I plug the Kindle into the wall power, turn on the WhisperNet antenna and let it sit there and suck down all the new content.