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Pdam, I agree, it's the external factors, which are out of Sony control, that work against this and similar devices now. What matters is what we want to read, not what can be loaded (stop with Gutenberg, already, these books are of little interest to the present reader who wants to read Steele, Connelly, Lecarre, Coulter, etc...). Consider this: two weeks ago I read two stories of Isaac Babel (in Russian), one week ago Camus' Stranger (in French), and am now reading Kaku's Parallel Worlds. NOT ONE of these books can be loaded onto the Sony or Iliad, so why would I buy them? And if I can load one of them on one, and another on the other, do I buy two readers? I wouldn't, and I won't, buy either now, not until the whole book distribution problem is resolved (and in light of all the publishers involved, it's hard to see when that could be). BTW, by constantly harping on the Gutenberg availability, you risk making the reader of today think that these devices are for reading older books only.
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