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Originally Posted by zelda_pinwheel
Regarding requests for an announcement of the Astak devices, Astak has previously been featured on the MobileRead frontpage. The MobileRead team has not so far seen the need for any additional announcements, because Robertb has been very active on MobileRead as an official representative of the Astak brand, which is a unique situation. Given his high activity here, we consider that it is superfluous to create an additional thread to duplicate his announcements which are already quite well publicised. MobileRead is an independent site, and we have to be careful to avoid showing favoritism to one company over the others. There are no Sony reps posting officially in Sony's name on MobileRead, that is why we do the reporting ourselves. We must think about a balance in the news here and Astak has already quite a high profile due to Robertb's presence. It's important we not neglect other brands which are not as actively represented here but which are important to our readers.
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So, because Sony and Amazon chose not to particpate actively on this site (I am sure they are trolling) you penalize Astak because they do participate.
A new product being available no matter what manufacturer should be on the first page.
There certainly is enough interest in the EZ-Reader/Pocket Pro - just look at the number of reads and posts on the threads.