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Old 09-21-2007, 02:17 PM   #9
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They do now, but when the PRS-500 was launched, Borders had exclusive rights to sell them for several months.
End October of '06 (the month they launched), CompUSA and Fry's both had them.

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One question is can Borders be left to cater to other reading devices as they come out?
That is an excellent question, yvanleterrible, I hope the answer is that they will. I suspect that it hinges on nekokami's point as to whether they will support only Sony's BBeB format (either directly or 'disguised' as .epub) or not. I have the impression that they would support .epub as a replacement for PDF 'support,' and as an additional format in it's own right. I hope that means they're interested in not staying married to BBeB/LRX. I don't think there's a long-term future for BBeB, frankly, or for any of the single company owned proprietary formats. Mobipocket may be an exception, since they're already extremely widespread, and they have Amazon's heft to put behind it now.
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