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Originally Posted by Bismarn
The ironic thing is: everyone complained that Borders got into the ebook game late when in fact they got into it years earlier than B&N by hooking up with Sony, but it made such a tiny splash that no one noticed. In fact some Borders were selling the Sony 505 back when the Kindle 1 came out.
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That wasn't really a Borders store though. It was just special branding of the Sony software. The books were still purchased from Sony.
I bought my first eInk device there (a 505) back in October of '07 and it was being able to go to a store and mess around with it that sold me.