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Originally Posted by badbob001
It seems like a slap in the face when even Sony is providing epub updates to their long retired readers. One could argue that Sony is much bigger than iRex and there are probably many lesser known readers, like those in China, that are being sold with no future updates as well.
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One small difference is that Sony sells their readers with the intention of continuing to sell you content from the Sony store. They are switching their store to ePub. If they didn't update their old readers, they would lose all of those customers who are buying eBooks from them. I doubt they're updating them out of the goodness of their heart, they're doing it because they don't want you to spend your eBook money elsewhere.
iRex, on the other hand, doesn't tie their device market to a content market.