Surely someone must realise that eBooks, Sony or otherwise, are not going to become mass-market until there is a large volume of content available for them. From a personal point of view I would certainly not consider paying out the amount of cash one of these devices cost without a high degree of confidence that I will be able to buy the books I want on it. Actually I am still old fashioned enough to like paper books and have no great desire to switch, The one thing that would pursuade me to buy a reader soonish would be the ability to buy books from the USA that are not published in the UK. It looks like the current system is set up specifically to prevent that.