With the market for electronic books still relatively sleepy, Sony Corp. is trying a new tack: untethering the latest model of its e-book reading device from its own online bookstore.
On Thursday, Sony will provide a software update to the Reader, a thin slab with a 6-inch screen, so the device can display books encoded in a format being adopted by several large publishers. That means Reader owners will be able to buy electronic books from stores other than Sony’s.
That’s great…to bad the
That’s great…to bad the Kindle owns the eReader is every way (eEcept for design. The eReader is way sexier. The Kindle was designed by monkeys).