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Originally Posted by Shaggy
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.
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Lesson of the day: buy a reader from a company with secondary sources of income or wait until readers are cheap enough to be causally replaced when they are obsolete.