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I have to resist making an impulse buy since I'm just a casual reader. I enjoy the portability of the smaller screen readers currently on the market. However, if textbooks can easily be bought to be read on these larger screen readers, I'll be all over it if it's not too expensive. Textbook versus eink device, eink device wins for me. All I would need is annotation, bookmarking and highlighting.
I'll wait and see what Sony will offer or if they even do come out with a larger screen eink device. It's expected they do, but maybe they won't.
I also would like to see the Sony store selling epub books and I would definately be buying more books through them if they did.
I guess the reason they do not sell epub books and probably will not is because to me, it appears Sony is a hardware company and not a book retailer. Sony is interested in pushing the reader and has opened it up to a wide variety of formats so that people can get content elsewhere. But I do hope they do realize there is a market for ebooks and consider selling books in epub format and continue to increase the volume of their library. Hopefully, they'll also be able to do a better job in offering competitive prices since they currently seem to be lacking in that area.
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