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Originally Posted by akira28
For what it is worth, I spoke to a Borders employee on Friday and he indicated that the Sony is on back order. I assume he meant the PRS-700 since another employee verified that that the 505 has been discontinued. However, the Sony Reader kiosk had been removed from its usual spot and was no where to be found.
These mixed signals are very strange. Sony pulling out is very possible since it occurred to their Clie line a few years ago. The similarities are striking. Back then, just after Sony put out it most high-end Palm model, which was ridiculously priced, and to less that favorable reviews (just as in the PRS-700), they scaled back operations to serve only Japan. But that pull back was accompanied with a press release and, of course, by that time, the PDA market was in decline which is dissimilar to the eReader market today.
Only time will tell.
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The Borders I was at today had both the 505 and the 700 on display.