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JAPAN NEWS AND DISCUSSION

Sony e-book reader gets 500,000 books from Google

Arts & Culture Mar. 20, 2009 - 04:17AM JST ( 4 )

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8iamhappy8Mar. 20, 2009 - 09:03AM JST

Lol with $100-$200 more, you could get a deccent travel laptop that doubles as an ebook reader. Why anyone would spend money on an e-book reader is beyond me...
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sf2kMar. 20, 2009 - 09:15AM JST

Wow what a waste of money! A Library card was $2 or free, can't remember. I have access to millions of books from the library system that I can order online to my local branch. I usually read quite often. I don't think the average American reads a book a year, so forget USA as a market! Donate the money for this to your local library instead, that would be better.

Used to read on my palm pilot but that gets old pretty quickly. A book is a book. Textbooks online/laptop are also terrible. Love reading curled up in bed. This just isn't the same. Also you can recycle the book to make another book.
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dieselchicMar. 21, 2009 - 07:27PM JST

Why doesn't google just pair up with Amazon..they have tons more books than Sony... hmm.. maybe there is a bit of political drama goin on here...
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Mark_McCrackenMar. 21, 2009 - 10:55PM JST

Why was Sony unable to convert these books from PDF to their reader without google's help? The content is in the public domain. Write a program and convert the files. Am I missing something here?