Sony announced
PORT-LOUIS, July 29, 2009 – Sony eBook Store announced it is together with Google providing access to over a million FREE public domain books.
It shows Sony’s commitment to providing consumers with the largest, most comprehensive selection of eBooks available.
Sony eBook Store has now become the largest source for eBooks.
Chris Smythe, director of the eBook Store from Sony, announced, “We’re proud to offer access to the broadest range of eBooks today – from hot new releases, to New York Times Best Sellers, to classics and hard to find manuscripts such as those available for free from Google.”
Sony has two Reader models available, the PRS-505 at approximately $280 and the PRS-700 at approximately $350.
The Reader Digital Book’s high-resolution electronic paper display delivers a realistic print look.
A single battery charge provides up to 7,500 pages of continuous reading.
Sony eBook readers support multiple file formats for personal documents and music. Adobe PDF documents, Microsoft Word documents, BBeB files and other text file formats can be transfered to them.
The device can store and display EPUB files and work with Adobe Digital Editions software.
US Readers can download over a million titles, which Google has digitized as part of its Google Books project, in EPUB format.
New eBook Store users can access available titles after setting up an account and downloading Sony’s free eBook Library software.
Adam Smith, product management director at Google, said, “We’re pleased to continue our collaboration with Sony so that more people around the world can discover and enjoy these books.”
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December 13th, 2009 at 11:16 pm
First time Kindle owner, got it last night and couldn’t put it down. I can see the points of the other reviews that say how the Kindle has changed the way they read in that they read more, more often and different genres than they would have with real books.
The ability to download samples of books and essentially browse through a bookstore from your sofa is pretty damn cool. It’s slightly weird to hold on to at first but within an hour it’s incredibly comfortable and natural.
This was a Christmas gift (Christmas in February wahoo!!) and now ranks as one of the most perfect and appropriate gifts I’ve ever received. It is a must for any avid reader.