I read that too, it occured about the same time some similar announcement was said to set a Canadian distribution to come.
In my case I'm rather optimistic about the state of things. The only push left to get the cart rolling is a stabilizaton of ebook standards. DE is not there yet.
The reshuffling of Connect's branches is of no importance. All it means is that they have not managed to get a captive crowd in a dual market sheme à la Apple. Sony is still an excellent hardware maker, and
not alone.
