Sony today announced the - the Reader Daily Edition,
a wireless eReader l with 3G connectivity from AT&T..
Sony already sells the Reader Pocket Edition and the Reader Touch Edition.The Reader Daily Edition will be available this
December in time for the holidays at SonyStyle stores and SonyStyle.com.
The Reader Daily Edition gives consumers wireless access via
AT&T's 3G mobile broadband network to Sony's eBook store from just
about anywhere in the U.S. Book lovers will be able to browse, purchase
and download books as well as select newspapers and magazines when and
where they want. There are no monthly fees or transaction charges for
the basic wireless connectivity and users still have the option to side
load personal documents or content from other compatible sites via USB.
The seven-inch wide, touch screen display provides for intuitive
navigation and comfortable layout of content, including newspapers and
magazines, whether you're reading in portrait or landscape orientation.
In portrait mode, about 30-35 lines of text are visible, making the
experience very similar to that of a printed paperback book. A high
contrast ratio with 16 levels of grayscale ensures that text and images
are crisp and easy to read. The Daily Edition also boasts an attractive
aluminum body with an integrated cover for durability. It has enough
internal memory to hold more than one thousand standard eBooks and
expansion slots for memory cards to hold even more. It will sell for
about $399.
In addition to announcing a new family of Readers, Sony has also
made several changes and improvements to its eBook Store to provide
better access to an even greater variety of ebooks. Earlier this summer
Sony announced the availability of more than one million free public
domain books from Google, and the company made new releases and New
York Times bestseller titles available for $9.99.
Today also marks the launch of Sony's Library Finder application.
Sony, working with OverDrive (www.overdrive.com), the leading global
digital distributor of eBooks and to libraries, will now offer visitors
to the eBook Store by Sony easy access to their local library's
collection of eBooks. Thousands of libraries in the OverDrive network
offer eBooks optimized for the Sony Reader, and visitors can now find
these libraries by typing their zip code into the Library Finder.
Through the selected library's download website, visitors can check out
eBooks with a valid library card, download them to a PC and transfer to
their Reader. At the end of the library's lending period, eBooks simply
expire, so there are never any late fees.