Comments on: Sony Promotes The God Delusion?

By: martymankins

martymankins — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 16:45:58 +0000

Yeah, big points for Sony on that one.

Maybe they couldn’t get the digital rights for the LaHaye book series.

By: Vincent

Vincent — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 15:08:20 +0000

My guess would be the publisher paid Sony to be included. I know Sony could have said no, and kudos for not doing that, but I doubt someone at Sony independently thought to include this book.

By: Scott

Scott — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 13:29:48 +0000

I hate Sony too much to cheer them, but I do agree that this is pretty cool. I would buy the Kindle over this simpoy because it is a Sony product.

By: Richard Wade

Richard Wade — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 07:41:00 +0000

Linda wondered:

It would be interesting to do a study on who reads more books in general, the ones who would support the display or the ones who would boycott Sony…

Well, one group reads many books while the other group only reads one.

By: Ron Brown

Ron Brown — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 04:44:05 +0000

Three cheers for Sony.

By: Rat Bastard

Rat Bastard — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 03:37:53 +0000

Sony pretty much dropped their junk in the blender with that malware issue a couple years ago. Maybe they are trying to prove a modicum of sense by appealing to the sensible crowd (atheists). How that’s going to work, I wouldn’t know.

By: Mike B

Mike B — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 03:20:46 +0000

Awesome, Dawkins is getting all kinds of promo this week, The God Delusion was on Family Guy last Sunday too

By: Linda

Linda — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 03:14:47 +0000

Yes, it’s a bestseller, but still… Ballsy move.

Ballsy or smart. It could be a genius marketing move, depending on how you look at it.

I’m sure the boycott of Sony from Christian conservatives will begin shortly.

It would be interesting to do a study on who reads more books in general, the ones who would support the display or the ones who would boycott Sony…

By: Awesomesauce

Awesomesauce — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 23:39:38 +0000

Oh sweet! Ebooks are piratable!

Time to get my eye patch, it’s time to web surf.

Wait, what was this post about?

Oh, one of Sony’s more useless items. I do, however, appreciate the balls/ovaries of steel it took to select Dawkins’s work as a sample. Nice job Sony, you may sabotage your business potential, but at least I’m smiling.

Right, back to getting myself a new ebook.

By: Marzipan

Marzipan — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 23:20:58 +0000

We just got one of those! And yes, The God Delusion was on it. And it is from Sony. There was a whole bunch of samples, most of them pulp fiction.

I really like the reader so far, BTW. Better than the current Kindle. To my taste, at least.