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Originally Posted by porkupan
The claims about five major U.S. chains still carrying Sony Readers are wishful thinking. Sony has not been updating stock at any retailers for quite some time.
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Yeah, doing a google on "Sony Reader" and pulling stock from 5 retailers is wishful thinking.
Those retailers are: Target, Best Buy, Buy.com, Sears, Sony Style and Amazon Marketplace.
There are others listed, but those were just the ones I checked.
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Originally Posted by encapuchado
Yeah, where are the covers? sonystyle.com doesn't list *any* cover for the 650. Covers don't need pearl screens. So, if Sony is not discontinuing the 650, why there are no covers available?
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Sony Style
does list a cover for the PRS-650. The default black one is out of stock, but the pink/red one is in stock.
EDIT: I just saw the post quoting Sony on the lack of availability, so I stand corrected (though the crappy pink one is still there for the taking
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In terms of the "16" other accessories that used to be there, what were they? Sony had covers, adapters, and cables. There are no adapters because they're not required. The cables (cable singular) are on another page. That basically leaves covers, which is all that you see on that page. The PRS-650 is perpetually out of stock, so it's no surprise its main cover is too. The PRS-950's cover has been MIA since January, and even then was hard to find.
EDIT: Here's the adapter:
http://www.sonystyle.com/webapp/wcs/...ionalImage1%22
In terms of the reader stock issues, keep your ducks in a row. The Black PRS-650 is the only reader that has been consistently out of stock, and that has been the source of nearly every rumor for the
whole line being discontinued. And that has been going on since December.
The Reader line was introduced, and 4 months later, rumors started it was being discontinued. Now it's 7 months later still, and this thread is going strong on the same level of misinformation.
-Pie