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Originally Posted by Churchcat
I could put up with the PC only - I could even manage the only one PC at a time stricture
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There is no such stricture. Simply log on your multiple machine with the same Connect account.
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but no credit cards outside the USA? What's all that about?
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Almost certainly legal issues with book distribution rights. CDs generally have a single world-wide publisher. Books aren't like that - distribution rights are country specific and, for example, many books have different publishers in the US and UK. I'm sure that Sony will roll out the Connect Store internationally over time, just like Apple did the iTunes store which, I'm sure you recall, was also initially US-only.
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And Sony's customer services are a laughing stock.
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I must respectfully disagree. I am now on my 3rd Sony laptop computer. The reason I keep buying them is precisely because their customer support are so excellent. I'm sorry to hear that you've had a poor experience, but I certainly don't believe it's generic.
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I only have one book on it now 1984 - 349 dollars for a badly scanned classic?
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That's your choice. There are 10s of thousands of books available in the public domain. Go, for example, to
http://www.manybooks.net and you can download some 15,000 books in Sony Reader format.