Hi, new to this forum, although have been reading it for last few months looking for updates on when UK will be able to purchase from Connect Store. It is soooo frustrating. I have read all my $50 worth that came with it, and although have downloaded many from the free ebook stores - I would really like to purchase some newer books, for variety.
I got this from Sony this week:
'Unfortunately there is no ETA and we want to thank you for your recent purchase of the Sony Reader. The Sony Reader was designed for you to read all types of materials in multiple formats. Unfortunately, if you are not a resident of the United States you will not be able to purchase Connect eBooks from the Connect eBook store.
This does not mean that you cannot get materials to read on your reader. Since the reader is able to display RTF, TXT, PDF (unsecured), and LRF files there are a huge number of places on the Internet you can go to get reading materials. You might wish to check out the following sites for starters:
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www.gutenberg.org
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www.manybooks.net
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www.baen.com
Any site that sells/delivers unsecured reading materials in the supported formats should be able to be read on the Reader. Also, interesting reading from the Web can be copied and pasted into a word-processing program and then saved as an RTF (without photos) for viewing on the Reader. '
Interesting to see that they are now advertisng other sites!