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Originally Posted by JanieB
OMG, you're right! How did I miss that before?? I compared price of books on Sony vs Amazon, but I must not have been signed on to Amazon at the time. I think I read about the additional $1.99 fee when it first became available here, but then they dropped the fee. They must have just bundled that fee into the price of the books.
I read somewhere that Amazon was having troubles working out a deal with the local cell phone providers/networks. I guess in order to keep the "free" whispernet, they have to recoup their costs somehow.
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Also note that some books(a few I have checked lately) can only be bought in the US. I know with B&N you can add a US address to your existing account and they don't seem to care but I tried that with Amazon and got an email almost right away saying I have to send them proof of US address. Unfortunately with Kindle you are stuck with Amazon so you may run into trouble with certain books. At least with an EPUB friendly reader you have many more options of where to buy your books Sony, Kobo(Canadian, I believe it is an offshoot of Chapters so you should be safe here albeit at a higher price even though our dollar is currently at par or very close), B&N etc etc. I too am Canadian and in the same boat, looking for a new reader. I currently have an older Sony PRS-500 which I really like but I need something new to appease my gadget addictions. I am keeping my eye on the Onyx/BeBook Neo and Pocketbook 302/602 at the moment. Both support many formats epub included, and both have wifi. Also both have touchscreens which I don't care for but as long as there are hard buttons for turning pages then it's cool with me. I basically just wanna read.
kevin