To many people a critical issue is the number of ebooks available. In that area there are far more in copyright books available for sale in Palm related formats than there are in Sony formats. It is a simple function of time as they have been at it longer than Sony has been at it. If this was a critical decision point for me I would never have bought the Sony Reader. Since it is at best a minor consideration, the lack of an extensive back library available for sale did not matter.
When it was first released the Sony community had only a few tools for creating Sony compliant books. Today, after only a few months, there are many tools for conversion and the list grows each week and the existing tools get better all the time.
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