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- Communacopia: Murdoch: We'll Start Charging For WSJ Blackberry App; Favors Sony Reader Over Kindle
- The Wall St. Journal is ready to start charging for mobile access on the Blackberry, News Corp (NYSE: NWS). CEO and chairman Rupert Murdoch told attendees at the Goldman Sachs Communacopia XVIII Conference. He didn’t offer a time frame for the charges, but indicated it would it start in...
- External links 2009-09-15
- Sony/Google Eye Amazon from Far End of Long Tail
- Following on yesterday's report about how the future of news will be via apps on mobile devices, today it's time to revisit the growing competition over eBook platforms. Sony ratcheted up the pressure on Amazon and its Kindle device by announcing this week a partnership with Google...
- Blog posts 2009-03-20
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- Sony Reader Daily Edition, ATandT Bring Wireless E-Book Access
- Sony introduces a third e-book reader, the Reader Daily Edition. Unlike Sony's Touch Edition and Pocket Edition, introduced in early August, the Daily Edition features wireless connectivity via AT&T's 3G network.Read all about it: Sony has introduced the Reader Daily Edition, its third new e-book reader but its first to...
- News items 2009-08-25
- Sony Reader Daily Edition, ATandT Team up for Wireless e-Book Access
- Sony has introduced a third e-Book reader, the Reader Daily Edition. Unlike its Touch Edition and Pocket Edition, introduced in early August, the Daily Edition features wireless connectivity via AT&T?s 3G network.Read all about it: Sony has introduced the Reader Daily Edition, its third new e-book reader but its first...
- News items 2009-08-25
- Your Kindle can't do this, local library ebooks now available on the Sony Reader
- I wrote about the new Sony Reader devices and how we would eventually be able to actually check out ebooks from our local libraries and read them on the Sony Readers. The press release and press coverage focused on the New York Public Library so I didn't give much thought...
- News items 2009-08-27
- Sony Adopts EPUB as It Fights Amazon.com for E-book Readers
- Sony announces that it will adopt the XML-based EPUB format for its eBook store, which will allow users to buy and read e-books even if they do not have a Sony Reader. Adopting the EPUB standard is seen as Sony's latest move against Amazon.com and its Kindle e-reader.Sony is adopting...
- News items 2009-08-13
- Is wireless really even necessary in an ebook reader?
- The has been a lot of ebook news this week with the new Daily Edition Reader added to the latest Sony Reader trio, the launch of the Sony eBook Store on the Mac, and the roll out of over a million free public domain books in EPUB format from Google....
- News items 2009-08-27
- Sony turns e-reader page
- When Sony introduced the first commercially available electronic book reader in Japan four years ago, I was among the lucky few in the west to get their hands on a review unit. I liked the hardware but was disappointed by the lack of low-cost content. The Sony Librié was a...
- News items 2009-08-27
- Sony's Family of E-Readers Grows
- Posted by: Douglas MacMillan on August 25 Look out, Amazon. During a Tuesday morning event for journalists held at the New York Public Library, Sony announced a new, touch-screen wireless electronic book reader that will take aim at the Kindle line of readers when it ships this December. The $399...
- News items 2009-08-25
- Will Sony's Daily Edition change the e-book reader race?
- Back in March, I reviewed two e-readers: Amazon's Kindle 2 and the Sony Reader PRS-700. While I preferred the Reader's interface, I wrote that, "Unfortunately, the Sony falls short in one of the most crucial tasks for any e-reader: the ability to easily download books and other products." The Kindle...
- News items 2009-08-25
- Sony Adds 3G Wireless To E-reader
- The Sony Reader Daily Edition is the third e-reader introduced by the consumer electronics company in as many weeks. However, the latest model is the only one with a built-in wireless connection that enables people to buy digital books directly from Sony's eBook store. function showDescimg{ifelementelement.innerHTML = img.alt;}; In terms...
- News items 2009-08-25
- New Sony Reader May Miss Christmas for Some
- The Sony Daily Edition Reader might seem like a fine holiday gift. Unlike the other Sony e-reading devices sold in stores now, it has a spacious 7-inch touchscreen and wireless access to Sony's online bookstore and newsstand. The only problem: Sony, which is in a tight race with Amazon's Kindle...
- News items 2009-11-17
- Verizon, iRex Teaming Up On E-Reader; Will Launch At Best Buy
- Sprint (NYSE: S) has the Kindle. AT&T (NYSE: T) has Sony (NYSE: SNE) and still-to-launch PlasticLogic. Now Verizon (NYSE: VZ) gets the iRex DR800SG—and the wireless U.S. e-reader market gets a bit more crowded. The $399 touchscreen device from iRex Technologies, the spinoff of Royal Philips Electronics, will be...
- External links 2009-09-23
- Google deal expands Sony’s e-book store
- Sony e-book customers will have free access to half a million public domain books as part of a new partnership with Google. The deal is designed to bolster Sony's position in the e-book market and increases the firm's eBook Store catalogue to 600,000, more than twice the number currently...
- Articles 2009-03-19
- Plastic Logic Preps E-reader For Business
- The startup has demonstrated prototypes of the QUE, most recently last month at the DEMOFall 08 conference. The next public demonstration will be Jan. 7 at the International Consumer Electonics Show in Las Vegas, Nev. To make its device more appealing to professionals, Plastic Logic has added...
- News items 2009-10-19
- Sony offers 1m free Google e-books on Reader
- Sony is pairing up with Google to offer more than 1m public domain e-books from the Google Books library for free on the Sony Reader. The Google Books project scans classic titles not protected by copyright and makes them available in digital format. The partnership was first announced in...
- Articles 2009-07-29
- Barnes & Noble Intros Nook eBook Reader
- The Nook, which is based on Google's Android operating system, offers a 3.5-inch diagonal color touch screen for navigation and a six-inch electronic paper display based on E Ink technology. In addition, the device has integrated access to AT&T's 3G wireless network to buy e-books or subscribe to magazines and...
- News items 2009-10-21
- Borders launches e-book reader
- Bookseller Borders is pairing up with Elonex to launch its own e-book reader in the UK. The device costs GBP189 (USD305) and comes preloaded with 100 free e-books, including texts by Shakespeare, Austen and Dickens. Borders hopes to rival the...
- Articles 2009-07-05
- Google Android E-Reader Alex Coming From Spring Design
- Spring Design Oct. 19 unveiled Alex, the first electronic reader based on Google's Android operating system for mobile devices, one day before Barnes & Noble is expected to unveil its first e-reader. The device features a 6-inch monochrome electronic paper display EPD for displaying book content and a 3.5-inch color...
- News items 2009-10-19
- Sony Launches Words Move Me, A Literary Clone of Twitter
- Erick Schonfeld submits: In conjunction with Tuesday’s announcement of a new wireless Sony Reader, the electronics giant also launched a literary clone of Twitter called Words Move Me. The site falls into the category of viral social marketing—there are links to the Sony SNE Reader website and...
- External links 2009-08-25
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