I’m still annoyed at the two main e-book readers: The Amazon Kindle and Sony eReader.

The Sony one is at least available in Canada (since April – almost 2 years after it was available in the States) and the Amazon one is not, and as far as I can tell has no plans to release a Canadian version any time soon (if ever).

Unfortunately, the Kindle book prices are way lower than the eReader prices. :p I looked up a random sampling of books I’d like to get, and they averaged about $6 through Amazon for the Kindle, and about $9 through Sony for the eReader. I picked a popular book, Twilight (ugh), to see the difference. $9.89 at Sony and $6.04 at Amazon. Seriously, WTF?

For that matter, WTF is up with eBook prices that high anyway? $10 for a file? I can buy a whole paperback book for $11. :p (the price of physical books in Canada vs books in the States is a rant for another day) . If they want me to spend three or four hundred dollars on an eReader (depending on the model), why make the book downloads for it be the same price as the physical books?
Yes, I get that it’s convenient to carry around several* books at a time, but it’s just as convenient to simply carry around one or two paperbacks that you’re currently reading. I don’t see that as being $300 worth of convenience.

And yet, I still want one. I just can’t get one, because it’s way too much money, and waiting for weeks for books to come in to my local library is free. :p

*= they can carry hundreds of files, but seriously how many books do you have on the go at the same time? If it’s more than 100, you probably have invented a better solution than a simple eReader.