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Originally Posted by Musicman
Bottom line is that there are other alternatives to Amazon and Sony and those should be considered first. Losing market share would be a wake up call to both Sony and Amazon.
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But are those ereaders as good as what AmaSony offers? I can't say from personal experience, but what I see is that AmaSony offers not only the ebook reader, but a goodly supply of ebooks with relatively small hassle.
I had a conversation with my soon to be 30 year old son a couple of days ago about ereaders. I had offered him my 505, but he has a mac, & said he didn't care to spend time hunting down books on the ministores. In fact, he wasn't keen on linking up to the mac with a cable. Basically, he wants to be able to type a book name into a search field, get the options, chose one, & download it wirelessly to his reader.
That sounds Kindlish to me. The various secondary readers & bookstores don't deliver that.
So while I agree that loss of market share would force Sony & Amazon to offer better ereaders, I think it's going to take a third party aggregator, like Apple & iTunes, or a head on competitor such as Barnes & Noble might become to do the trick.