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Originally Posted by Kosst Amojan
I don't see how this is good news for me.
I have a PRS-500 which I bought the day it came out making it only 3 years old. I love it and it still functions like the day I bought it and I had no plans of upgrading.
I've bought many books from the Sony store and much of the online material I read (mostly fanfiction) I convert to lrf...which means I have several hundred lrf titles on my computer along with Sony's lrx books I bought.
Now I'm hearing that from now on, Sony will only be releasing ebooks in a format that my Sony Reader can't even read??? Why are they basically cutting off their store from god knows how many of their customers???
I'll wait to hear what they have to say in the near future but as of now I have no faith in Sony's future device support which means I won't by any other product from them that would require such support.
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Sony is moving forward. LRF may have seemed like a good idea in the past, but now it's not. And Sony did give an upgrade path from the 500 to the 505 and it looks like Sony si going to do that again. If you choose not to take the upgrade path, that's fine. But do not blame Sony for your not wanting to upgrade. Sony came out with the 500 and the 500 just doesn't have the ability to handle both LRF/LRX & ePub. The only thing Sony can do it seems is remove LRF/LRX from the 500 in a move to ePub. But then, a lot of people might not be happy with that. So the only real solution is what Sony has done which is allow a trade-in.
The new devices will display LRF/LRX and ePub. Because of the number of devices already with (and forthcoming) ADE/ePub, it makes sense from a financial standpoint to support ePub in the eBookstore. LRF/LRX is a losing battle. This way, Sony can get sales from owners of non-Sony readers.