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Originally Posted by Elfwreck
Why sell your Sony (unless it's to get an Astak EZreader 'cos that reads more filetypes)? I have a 505--and not a shred of software on my computer that will read DRM'd ebooks. I buy from Fictionwise (multiformat) and Baen and Smashwords, and get free ebooks from all over the place.
No reason to stop enjoying ebooks; get some popcorn and watch the publishing industries reenact the Napster wars in slow motion. (And wait for the first court case that says, "y'know, if there's no legit digital edition available, the PDF isn't infringing on any profits anyway...)
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Smashwords is out for me, because a lot of their books have that obnoxious 'buy a separate copy and don't lend this one' notice at the beginning. Baen is out because I don't like any of the authors there. Fictionwise...again, not really got what I'm looking for nine times out of ten. Seriously, I could thumb my nose at the whole thing by going to the second-hand retailers and feel good about it in the process. For the most part, my ebook reader has become a paperweight and will be for a long time, until there's some equity in the whole damned mess.
I probably won't get rid of it though, as there's a lifetime of public domain texts available. May as well read them before the corporations outlaw the public domain and retroactively place it all back into copyright.
