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Old 11-12-2008, 10:49 AM   #211
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it would have made more sense if sony made a product that worked with the amazon store. building their own store and own proprietary format and then going up against amazon for cripes sake is absolutely foolish IMHO.
I love my Kindle but I do have to point out that Amazon is one of the new kids on the ebook reader block. Sony was on their 2nd generation before Kindle 1.0 came out.

We don't know if Amazon and Sony ever discussed working together or not. I'm sure a lot of Sony owners (not all) would be happy if they could purchase ebook content from Amazon at the same prices as Kindle owners.

Who knows, maybe someday it will happen.
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Old 11-12-2008, 10:58 AM   #212
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Old 11-12-2008, 11:02 AM   #213
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it would have made more sense if sony made a product that worked with the amazon store. building their own store and own proprietary format and then going up against amazon for cripes sake is absolutely foolish IMHO.
Sony had eBook Readers long before Amazon had eBooks or Kindles.

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Old 11-12-2008, 11:05 AM   #214
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i'll concede amazon is new at the electronic hardware ereader game.
but they are an established pro at the content side of things.

sony's lack of experience here, and more importantly, their inability to have major influence over publishers, puts them at a disadvantage - how big a disadvantage will be determined after this plays out over the next year or so. by then amazon may have 400,000 kindle books and we'll be able to better determine if the sony business model can withstand the test of time.
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Old 11-12-2008, 04:59 PM   #215
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So did you join the Kindle book club just to purchase ebooks for your Sony?

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I didn't join any book clubs, but if you are asking if I bought a Kindle just to purchase ebooks for my Sony my answer is kind of. I bought a Kindle because Amazon had enough books that I was interested in that weren't available in the Sony store. As I mentioned earlier in the thread, content is king. However, once I got the kindle and then found out how easy it was to format shift, I decided that I greatly prefer reading on the Sony.
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Sony had eBook Readers long before Amazon had eBooks or Kindles.

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Not so. Amazon had eBooks but then decided to stoop having eBooks. This was before there was ever any eink readers available. When Amazon decided to stop supporting eBooks, this did piss off a lot of people who had purchased eBooks and needed to redownload when upgrading computers because of the way DRM tends to work. This is not a case of the store going bust. It's a case of the store deciding not to support it's customers. Barnes & Nobels did the same sort of thing with eBooks back when.
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Old 11-12-2008, 10:52 PM   #217
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I didn't join any book clubs, but if you are asking if I bought a Kindle just to purchase ebooks for my Sony my answer is kind of.
Yes... that is my euphemistic way of saying you bought a Kindle. I have seen many lament here about not being able to buy ebooks from Amazon for their Sony, CyBook or other and I just tell them all they need to do is "Join the Kindle book club"... sort of an alter-ego of the Fictionwise book club with is $30 a year or something to get the better prices.

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Old 11-15-2008, 10:32 AM   #218
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Not so. Amazon had eBooks but then decided to stoop having eBooks. This was before there was ever any eink readers available. When Amazon decided to stop supporting eBooks, this did piss off a lot of people who had purchased eBooks and needed to redownload when upgrading computers because of the way DRM tends to work. This is not a case of the store going bust. It's a case of the store deciding not to support it's customers. Barnes & Nobels did the same sort of thing with eBooks back when.
And this was in 2003 when Sony first started producing books for their reader? Don't say not so when you don't know what you are talking about.

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Old 11-19-2008, 09:22 PM   #219
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In the past two weeks Sony have added about 1000 new titles and now have about 53,000 ebooks for sale for the Readers. (Note that previous totals for Sony that I've listed in this thread have included the sum of books in all categories which recently included about 3500 double-counts). They have added an average of 90 new ebooks per day to their store since Sept., 2007.

In the same period Amazon have added approximately 10,000 new titles (a 2.8% increase) and now have about 201,000 ebooks for sale for the Kindle with an average of 305 new ebooks per day added to their offerings since Nov., 2007.

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Old 12-04-2008, 08:13 AM   #220
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In the past two weeks Sony have added about 1600 new titles (a 3.2% increase) and now have about 54,600 ebooks for sale for the Readers. (Note again that previous totals for Sony that I listed in this thread before Nov., 2008 included the sum of books in all categories which included roughly 3500 double-counts). They have added an average of about 90 new ebooks per day to their store since Sept., 2007.

In the same period Amazon have added approximately 5900 new titles (a 2.9% increase) and now have about 206,900 ebooks for sale for the Kindle with an average of 310 new ebooks per day added to their offerings since Nov., 2007.
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Old 12-20-2008, 01:57 PM   #221
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In the past two weeks Sony have added about 1900 new titles (a 3.5% increase) and now have about 56,600 ebooks for sale for the Readers. (Note again that previous totals for Sony that I listed in this thread before Nov., 2008 included the sum of books in all categories which included roughly 3500 double-counts). They have added an average of about 90 new ebooks per day to their store since Sept., 2007.

In the same period Amazon have added approximately 6600 new titles (a 3.2% increase) and now have about 213,500 ebooks for sale for the Kindle with an average of 314 new ebooks per day added to their offerings since Nov., 2007.
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Old 12-20-2008, 03:42 PM   #222
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I didn't join any book clubs, but if you are asking if I bought a Kindle just to purchase ebooks for my Sony my answer is kind of. I bought a Kindle because Amazon had enough books that I was interested in that weren't available in the Sony store. As I mentioned earlier in the thread, content is king. However, once I got the kindle and then found out how easy it was to format shift, I decided that I greatly prefer reading on the Sony.
Same thing for me. I prefer reading on the Sony. I buy all my books from Amazon now that I have a Kindle, and promptly make a Sony version of the book. I love how small the Sony is, and it's so comfortable to hold. But mostly I LOVE the pages numbers instead of the position dots that the Kindle give you while reading. Don't get me wrong, there are positives for owning the Kindle, it's just that I prefer reading on the Sony. The only thing missing is courage to change the font type on my Sony, the Kindle has a better font. Once I do that, it will be perfect!
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The only thing missing is courage to change the font type on my Sony, the Kindle has a better font.
The Kindle uses Caecillia font. I'm using it on my Reader.

Come to the font-changing side.
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Old 12-23-2008, 08:30 AM   #225
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In the past two weeks Sony have added about 1900 new titles (a 3.5% increase) and now have about 56,600 ebooks for sale for the Readers. (Note again that previous totals for Sony that I listed in this thread before Nov., 2008 included the sum of books in all categories which included roughly 3500 double-counts). They have added an average of about 90 new ebooks per day to their store since Sept., 2007.

In the same period Amazon have added approximately 6600 new titles (a 3.2% increase) and now have about 213,500 ebooks for sale for the Kindle with an average of 314 new ebooks per day added to their offerings since Nov., 2007.
I still don't understand the disparity between Amazon's and Sony's numbers. I don't think I've found a single ebook on amazon I couldn't find on Sony.
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