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Originally Posted by Andybaby
Jet Book 180
Kindle 1 Refurb 199
PRS-505 250
Kindle 2 299
PRS-700 350
5 inch reader better come in cheaper than the Kindle 1, and based on specs alone. it should cost 160 bucks compared to everything else. as the kindle 1 price just dropped.
but the only price that's been stated by the clone by bookeen was $250.
and Barnes and Noble + Plastic Logic in 5 months + Direct competition with amazon. the prices will begin to fall further.
if the pocket pro shipped last month for 199. it would have been a great deal. now I don't feel it would be a great deal for less than 160
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I have to disagree.
This list tries to compare unlike devices. The Pocket Pro is the only one that offers an eInk screen in a smaller size (which some like), with tighter resolution (200 dpi versus 160 dpi), faster page turns, a more powerful CPU, a user replaceable battery, and support for secure books published in both ePub and eReader format.
Barnes and Noble has opened an online store to sell books at competitive prices in those formats. I’ve used eReader for several years (I’ve even formatted a few books in it myself) and read a lot more professionally formatted books in eReader, ePub and BBeB formats. The fact is that a book of fiction and nonfiction books without complex graphics can be as well formatted in eReader as anything. I’ve installed the new, free B&N eReader rendering engine on my PC and I like it better than the old eReader and a lot better than the Sony Library. eReader has the best, that is to say the fairest, DRM scheme available for those publishers who insist on using DRM and those readers who want to read the newest fiction.
In sum, although no one knows what Sony will do this fall, for now the Pocket Pro is the only device with all these features, all of which are things I want in a book reader. I think $199 to $210 is a good and reasonable price. What will be reasonable in a year’s time no one knows, but that’s the nature of competition. I learned a long time ago that it never pays to keep waiting for the best electronic... anything. It just keeps getting better, and Jenkie will have to keep competing too.