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Originally Posted by jaxx6166
Sony -had- a book store at one point...But it seems like their partnership with Borders has broke down (especially with them having their own e-reader now.
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Sony also HAD an e-book store when they released Sony Librié - the first ever e-ink reader in Japan.
Their store turned out to be a spectacular fiasco, because their DRM was so draconian that even Japanese market wouldn't go for it.
With Sony Librié your "purchased" books expired in 90 days and THE ONLY content you were allowed to put on your reader was content purchased in Sony E-book Store (Japan). Later on Sony published program that allowed you to put you your own content [Gasp!] on your own device, but it was only after some clever hackers did it first and it was waaaaay too late anyway. The only nice thing that could be said about the Librié is that it was the first e-ink reader, way ahead of the rest of the world and that the prices in their e-book ... aehm ... store (a library, really) were significantly lower than printed books.
For their store Sony partnered with big and influential publishers from Japan.