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Originally Posted by HarryT
I'm not sure that I agree, Hadrien. Sony is a known name, and there are "Sony Centre" shops throughout Europe where people are likely to buy a Reader through seeing it on display. Bookeen have never sold "retail" and I don't think that's likely to change with the new CyBook. A product which is only available on the web and is made by a company that 99.99% of the public have never heard of is certainly not going to take away many sales from a big brand name like Sony (IMHO, of course).
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as the targetcustomers of these readers are the geeks and such, brand name is not that important. Features and specs, that's what's count.
A lot of geeks, if they had the choice would not buy the sony reader BECAUSE it's from sony (drm-rootkitdisaster anyone?)
As for the cybook, if bookeen is smart (and I think they are) they'd let renowned reviewsites write reviews on their product and they're set.
Who's ever heard of meizu before? I didn't, but reading the reviews and seeing the features, I bought one anyway. And it's quality totally blows away any famous MP3-player at that moment.