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Originally Posted by Alexander Turcic
Chuck, you are wrong. This is straight from the frontpage.
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I don't recall seeing this on the front page. How do I search for the past weeks recaps to verify (not that I do not believe you)?
However, the past week we had the Official Pre-Order news with a reduction in Price to 199.99 and that was not considered front page news.
What started the debate was the moderators response below that appears as a punishment for being active here. Pre-Orders being accepted, Price Reductions, Firmware Upgrades, are all news worthy items that I think all members would be interested in.
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.