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Originally Posted by thibaulthalpern
Ah! Thanks for the help. It's unfortunate that Sony uses this trickery to get people to think they have a good deal. I mean if the books are in the public domain they shouldn't be offering that as a great deal to have. Pfft...
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On the other hand, it does offer 100 books free for people to start reading, and it will get the new customers onto the Sony web-site where the company is hoping they will notice other books for sale and will buy them while also looking at the free books. It's not trickery -- it's marketing (well, I know, that's trickery of the worst sort!) and it costs Sony nothing to offer it.
I like that idea better than the sample chapters they ship installed on the reader -- I hate situations where "the first hit's free" and they get you hooked and then you have to pay $20 (or whatever) to read the rest of the book you just got hooked on.
We have to remember that a lot of the people who would buy a Sony Reader at Border's or wherever aren't lucky enough to have stumbled onto this terrific forum first. We who have found this site have no need for Sony's marketing ploys because we're smarter than that.
