Thread: Breaking news!!!!! Sony to sell Epub only
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Old 08-13-2009, 01:15 PM   #194
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Originally Posted by JSWolf View Post
When you purchase eBooks from Sony, you don't have to pay any sales tax. Sony's price drop is to keep competitive with Amazon. And given that more devices will handle ePub than AZW, this is a very smart move on Sony's part. So they will be able to sell to anyone who has a compatible reader or a computer that runs OS X or Windows. That will be more possible customers then Amazon could possibly have.
I did not mean to suggest Sony added sales tax--just that the size of the price drop was underwhelming.

$10 is still about twice what I think is reasonable for the average light-reading ebook.

- Ahi
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