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Sony is going after "education" for one big reason:
It can join everyone else and charge you a $100 for a 20-yo textbook. Sony is, above all, a content company. And its greed lies in figuring out how to make you pay for content. The biggest money is in textbooks. To think ebook textbooks will cost less is a joke.
anyway, thank god that the online comrades have already scanned in a huge amount of textbooks, non-fiction books, popular fiction, and even keep up-to-date on the better magazines. There's gigabytes and gigabytes of the stuff out there. Just as with the ipod, the clueless yuppies can go off sucking on their pigopolist teet and be happy as clams. Everyone else will just steal.
Hence, this is the Reader's REAL killer app. It's hard reading all those stolen books on the PC. For me it's not a choice of pBook vs eBook. It's tethered LCD vs unhindered eInk. This choice is easy. And I love that I've made it.
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