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Originally Posted by raf1987
I have read that phillips hold the licence as it is their technology thus Sony are not allowed to sell in Europe but are trying to resolve this.
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Well, that's close, raf1987: the e-ink technology belongs to a company called
e-ink (unsurprisingly) and Phillips/iRex do have an "exclusive" license of some sort from them for the tech, but I'm not sure if that's manufacturing, sales or what.
And while that license might very well be complicating things for Sony in Europe (good point, that, I hadn't considered the ramifications of it), it certainly shouldn't have any effect in
Canada, for instance.
We
do know that there are definitely some legal-type obstacles in the area of book distribution rights. Specifically, we don't believe that Sony has global distribution rights, which limits where they can and can't sell books from the Connect Store. And since they've tied the Reader pretty closely to the ConnStore in their marketing strategy ....