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8:26AM Wilson Rothman | As you may have heard, Sony’s shipping a $US200 5″ Reader Pocket Edition and $US300 6″ Reader Touch Edition at the end of August. Also coming: Mac support and—later on—wireless downloading like Amazon’s Kindle. More »
Sony’s Pocket And Touch Ebook Readers Priced To Move; Promises Wireless Next
8:26AM Wilson Rothman | As you may have heard, Sony’s shipping a $US200 5″ Reader Pocket Edition and $US300 6″ Reader Touch Edition at the end of August. Also coming: Mac support and—later on—wireless downloading like Amazon’s Kindle. More » 
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Sony’s PRS-300, PRS-600 EBook Readers Leaked In Service Manuals
6:30AM Jason Chen | The followups to Sony’s PRS-700 eBook reader seem to have surfaced in some service manuals dated July 2009. The two readers have these specs: More »
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Sony to Drop New Reader Hardware in October?
11:40PM John Mahoney | If this press event invite is any indication, that’s the way things are looking. The date is set for October 2, and it all goes down at the Bookmark Lounge of the Library Hotel here in New York. Hmm, there couldn’t be any book connotation to all of that, could there? On this day of press events, it seems like Sony’s jumping into the fray as well to update their year-old Reader hardware before Xmas. We’ll keep you posted. [Sony Reader] More »
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How to Transplant a Sony Reader Display Into a Dying Kindle
9:50AM Sean Fallon | The mad scientist behind this hack was faced with a problem. His beloved Amazon Kindle had a shattered screen and was all but dead. Distraught, he thought to himself: “what if I could sacrifice a Sony reader and perform and unholy cross species screen transplant? Yeah, it just might work because the e-ink screens on both devices are nearly identical.” More »
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Sony Opens Up More E-Book Formats For Reader
11:08PM John Mahoney | A firmware update scheduled to drop later this week will allow Sony Readers to use the .epub format, an open standard (with DRM support) that has the backing of several major book publishers. This means you’ll be able to get books from sources other than Sony’s own Connect store, which currently only has one third the titles of Amazon’s Kindle store. The Kindle, however, currently uses the Mobipocket format for its Kindle Store books, and does not yet support .epub. [AP] More »
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Penguin to Launch Ebooks Alongside Regular Releases
10:30AM Haroon Malik | The international publisher, Penguin, has decided to hop onto the ebook bandwagon, by promising regular book launches to be held in conjunction with their ebook counterparts. Unfortunately, the prices will not be lowered for the ebook varieties, but Penguin will offer direct downloads from their website. More »
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Sony Reader Goes Total Stereotype for Valentine’s Day
1:52AM Mark Wilson | Sony is offering both the colour pink and absurd romanticism in a special US$299 V-Day Sony Reader Bundle. Coming with a pink “Cross Your Heart” Reader skin and a coupon for 14 Harlequin Special Releases… let’s just say that we’d never date anyone who accepted this gift in earnest. For those interested in what a real lady (my wife) thinks about the Sony Reader, hit up her impressions here. For the record, she’s still reading with it nonstop.
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