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Originally Posted by rmeister0
It had better last longer than that for a $350 device, to say nothing of all the content I've bought so far.
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Exactly what I was thinking when I read that - mostly because of the content. Kind of a chicken-and-egg thing people have long recognized...
- if no one buys ebooks, or the device doesn't catch on, Sony probably won't produce more Readers.
- if I think there's a chance Sony won't produce more readers, I'm not going to plop down more than a buck or two for any book that effectively has a 2 year lifespan - period.
Books aren't rentals - my library lets me do that for free. The argument that I could keep the Connect software around and read it on my PC (until the Connect software breaks with some future OS version) holds no water... if I wanted to read a book on a PC I'd not have purchased the Reader. In that case, the availability of software that removed the DRM would be the only thing that would make me buy eBooks. I came to a similar realization with online music stores a long time ago, and the only reason I buy music (and lots of it) online is because I can zip the DRM off and feel I haven't thrown away my money. Kind of an irony... I'm happy to pay and not copy, but only if they don't put junk on it to keep me from copying - because the major side-effect of DRM in restricting how I can personally use it is a show-stopper for me.