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Originally Posted by arekieh
Alright, so i just bought a prs 300 and i love it. Its my mobile reader that im going to take on the bus and leave in my backpack. But i want something more feature-rich, bigger screen, etc to leave at home. Im in canada though so if i get the nook id have to ebay it and i dunno which features wont work, also ill have to wait for a couple months  .
Do u guys think i should just get a kindle 2 or wait for the nook? and do u guys think the nook will go international soon? and if it does will my non international one still work in canada if i bought it before? |
I would go with the Kindle - most of the objections I have heard are based on, I don’t like Amazon, or you will have to strip the DRM to move it to another reader" Given that Amazon has the biggest and arguably best priced book library makes them , IMHO, the most likely to get what they want from the publishing monsters which intern gets me what I want which is more selection at better prices. I am not even sure why its important to be able to read the Amazon books on my sony 505 or other ereader device, especially since i can read it on my Iphone, PC and shortly my mac and Blackberry
In the not to distant past, a lot of people complained about Apple locking you to their device and their store yet millions and millions of people have bought and do buy ipods and iphones and send dump trucks full of money to Apple for the privilege to do so. It was this leverage that allowed Apple to push the music industry to drop DRM which is what I believe Amazon will be able to do in the near future
Just for fun I went through the list of the 100 greatest books as prescribed by eastonpress.com (a fine leather book publisher)
of the 100
98 were available on Amazon in Kindle Format
56 of the 98 were free
the rest were mostly 99 cents
a few were $5 or less
i know you can find similar results on many of the free books sites, but for the average consumer, they are not going to sift through those sites, download them to their pc (in the right format), hook up there reader and then transfer the book over. They want what the Kindle gives - i type in Dracula - click buy - read.
I think Amazon has set the paradigm which others will be left to just follow at this point. The Nook seems to be the closest in my mind, but it is really new, not available overseas, from what I have seen slower and does not offer the large screen option the Kindle DX does
I am in the opinion that the Kindle has the best end user experience and that coupled with its vast library and aggressive pricing makes it a solid win for me.