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Originally Posted by NuclearWinter
Fictionwise have Nation on sale in LIT format for $7 (when you include rebate) at the moment if you're willing to strip the DRM and convert it.
Or just create a virtual visa card on Entropay.com and buy it from the Sony store.
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Thanks for the info but I don't want to have to go through the rigmarole of having to strip DRM and set up virtual visa cards just to buy a book.
Technology is supposed to make life easier but I could just wander into Waterstones, pick up a book off of the shelf, pay for it and be reading in minutes. Surely the idea of a book reader is to make this even more convenient. So far I have had to buy it twice, (once on my wife's credit card because one retailer doesn't accept debit cards online even though they do in their stores), email half a dozen times and make two lengthy telephone calls......and I still don't have the book. Awesome! That and the fact that the books are both different prices from both stores even though they are being supplied by the same servers. That price also being the hardback price and not the paperback price even though there is no printing, packaging, shipping etc. overheads. Add to that the fact that some books have a fair few errors in them because they have been produced using OCR technology which is something you wouldn't accept if you paid full price for a paper book. This medium really needs to improve and quickly if it is to become mainstream and really take off. I love the device and despite my whingeing I am glad that I bought it but it isn't by any means perfect yet.
/Rant.
I do love my Sony though
