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Originally Posted by NatCh
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 .... |
In Canada what might slow them down is French content. Canada is an officially bilingual country. A milk carton has English as well as French description even though the French speaking population is
mainly concentrated in one area.
Also, Sony entities in every country are separate from one another, taking their own decisions relatively to the mother house.