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Let's see Steve, you sell your books for $2.50 each (a real bargin) and the Sony Reader costs $350. Now assuming all of it is pure incremental revenue (aside from things like PayPal fees and Visa clearing fees) then you need to sell 140 additional books to break even. Will this bring new sales that you otherwise would have missed?
As for the comment in the blog and notes about wanting a reader that was not encumbered by DRM, the Sony Reader has DRM but it also offers many other formats such as TXT, RTF, PDF (if formatted for its screen), and LRF. To me the Reader is not encumbered by DRM.
Neko's comments about the notational features is interesting as I have always been one that never marked up books. Even most of my college texts were unblemished. (I also never liked buying used textbooks that were marked or highlighted, maybe the person who sold the book failed the course and the highlights are all meaningless points and they missed the main thrust of the text.)
It is a good blog and well worth the effort to read. Thanks Moonraker for posting
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