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Originally Posted by pitcher23
I disagree. The Kindle and, to a lesser extent, the Sony PRS are marketed to make purchasing and reading e-books as easily as possible. Once a customer gets past setting up his or her Amazon account, won't even need a computer to purchase and read. Although you need to use Sony's software and manually download your e-book to your device, Sony made it fairly simple that a layperson could do it with little hassle.
A device like the Jetbook, with no support for DRM books, may be attractive for tech savvy people who know how to convert a best seller, but like Wolf has stated numerous times, your average person who walks into BB&B and buys this reader, will go home expecting to buy the latest best seller and find out that they cannot. I just hope BB&B is ready for a lot of returns.
I don't know many people who are not tech savvy who buy products because they know their friends and family will set everything up for them. That a home store like BB&B sells it and advertises that it is easier and better than the Kindle and Sony will lead the customer as thinking it is easy as pie to setup and use.
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It will be interesting to hear the opinion of
average person who already purchased jetBook in BB&B store on this forum
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