Comes with 100 classics
Sony's PRS-505 Reader hits stores in Britain on Sept. 4 at a cost of £200, which includes a bundled CD containing 100 "classic" (in other words, uncopyrighted) books.
TechRadar
So how does Sony expect us to react to its new slab?
By making content – and lots of it – extremely accessible. The manufacturer has certainly learnt from its experiences in the US, where purchasers also had to obtain their books from a single Sony-owned website.For the UK release has roped Waterstones in on the action. Expect its 25,000 ebooks to cost around 10-15 per cent less than their physical counterparts. But it's not just purchasable books you can load onto the Reader. There's the vast array of out-of-print books available for free on the web, too.
TechRadar
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Wednesday, September 3, 2008
Thursday, August 28, 2008
E-Ink Makes Strides in Japan
Uses span mobile phones, wrist watches, train station signs
Sriram Peruvemba, vice president of marketing at E Ink Corp., talked with blogger Pradeep Chakraborty. He described the work E-Ink Corp. is doing in Japan with Sony on eBooks, with Casio on the mobile phone GzOne, with Citizen on signage products, with Seiko on wrist watches, with Hitachi on mobile phone case art display, with Teraoka on Ink In Motion signs, with Toppan on train station arrival/departure information signs. The low-power usage of e-ink is attractive for cell phones. "We see sub-segments of the mobile phone market that is disatisfied with the amount of use per battery charge with current LCD technology," Peruvemba said. "We see opportunities for customers to make a unique fashion statement with their products by using our displays. Our displays are slightly thicker than a sheet of paper, so, it is easy to incorporate them as the outside skin of a mobile phone."
Pradeep Chakraborty's Blog
Sriram Peruvemba, vice president of marketing at E Ink Corp., talked with blogger Pradeep Chakraborty. He described the work E-Ink Corp. is doing in Japan with Sony on eBooks, with Casio on the mobile phone GzOne, with Citizen on signage products, with Seiko on wrist watches, with Hitachi on mobile phone case art display, with Teraoka on Ink In Motion signs, with Toppan on train station arrival/departure information signs. The low-power usage of e-ink is attractive for cell phones. "We see sub-segments of the mobile phone market that is disatisfied with the amount of use per battery charge with current LCD technology," Peruvemba said. "We see opportunities for customers to make a unique fashion statement with their products by using our displays. Our displays are slightly thicker than a sheet of paper, so, it is easy to incorporate them as the outside skin of a mobile phone."
Pradeep Chakraborty's Blog
Saturday, August 16, 2008
Why Sony Lost the Battle of the E-Book
Danger for Sony: it is already too late.
Sony has squandered an early lead in a new field because another company was better not just at inventing an electronic device but also at linking it to a wireless network and making it easy for consumers to use. The Sony product is the Reader, a portable device for reading electronic books, which the company launched two years ago. This time Sony’s competitor is Amazon, which has swept past Sony with the Kindle, a rival e-book reader that is showing every sign of becoming the iPod of this nascent market.
FT
Sony has squandered an early lead in a new field because another company was better not just at inventing an electronic device but also at linking it to a wireless network and making it easy for consumers to use. The Sony product is the Reader, a portable device for reading electronic books, which the company launched two years ago. This time Sony’s competitor is Amazon, which has swept past Sony with the Kindle, a rival e-book reader that is showing every sign of becoming the iPod of this nascent market.
FT
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