Sony’s E-Book Is Easy on the Eyes

PC World Writer Yardena Arar says Sony today issued the latest electronic challenge to the printed page. She says The Reader, which Sony expects to ship in April with a price tag between $299 and $399, addresses all of the usual issues in a package that’s only slightly taller and wider than most best-selling paperbacks and no more than half as thick. You flip open a cover to a screen that shows one page at a time using electronic-ink technology from a company named E Ink. You turn pages by pressing a button; you can also enlarge the text up to 200 percent, a boon for vision-impaired readers.
Other coverage @ The USA Today and the PR News Wire.

January 5, 2006 by Uncategorized 2

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  1. Daniel says:
    January 6, 2006 at 3:10 am

    Christmas 2006?
    If the actual market device lives up to this review, I think I’ll ask for one for Christmas. No mention of what DRM measures will be taken, but the note that it will accept RSS feeds indicates some cross vendor interoperability.

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  2. Sheilah says:
    January 6, 2006 at 9:15 pm

    Re:Christmas 2006?
    This does look promising but what kinds of books will be offered? It would be very useful if children’s titles were among those included in the first wave.

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