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Originally Posted by Gideon
Yeah, but it's important not to think about it as some virtue of Sony's. Sony would absolutely lock you into everything they could, IF they could.
It's just that as a company they have such a hard time getting their crap together when it isn't just a piece of hardware that they couldn't pull something like that off successfully.
Such wonderful hardware... such bad everything else.
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I certainly don't think Sony is virtuous (remember the rootkit debacle?), but they support more formats (ePub!) than Amazon, and their business model, as far as ereaders go, is certainly more open-market than Amazon.
I buy lots of stuff at Amazon, I'm not a basher, but I won't buy a Kindle until they change their business model.
I have format-shifted ebooks, but I don't like to, would rather not, would rather have more options than Amazon offers without flirting with breaking the law. Even if it is a bad law (which it is).