http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/23/sony-reader-pre-order-now-live-in-the-uk-shipping-in-september/ Engadget Comments for Sony Reader pre-order now live in the UK, shipping in September http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2012 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/23/sony-reader-pre-order-now-live-in-the-uk-shipping-in-september/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/23/sony-reader-pre-order-now-live-in-the-uk-shipping-in-september/Jul 23rd 2008 5:01PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/23/sony-reader-pre-order-now-live-in-the-uk-shipping-in-september/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/23/sony-reader-pre-order-now-live-in-the-uk-shipping-in-september/
Wait...]]>Jul 23rd 2008 5:20PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/23/sony-reader-pre-order-now-live-in-the-uk-shipping-in-september/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/23/sony-reader-pre-order-now-live-in-the-uk-shipping-in-september/_> ]]>Jul 23rd 2008 5:23PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/23/sony-reader-pre-order-now-live-in-the-uk-shipping-in-september/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/23/sony-reader-pre-order-now-live-in-the-uk-shipping-in-september/Jul 23rd 2008 6:04PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/23/sony-reader-pre-order-now-live-in-the-uk-shipping-in-september/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/23/sony-reader-pre-order-now-live-in-the-uk-shipping-in-september/So, the current proposed business model seems to be that customers are supposed to pay a premium for their eBook reader, pay a price for the eBooks that's higher than the price for the corresponding paperback, and that customer's will have to accept DRM, i.e., at some point in the not so far future they won't be able to access the books they bought anymore. Great. The only reason why this clever model might not work is that the technology isn't good enough, yet, isn't it?]]>Jul 24th 2008 5:59AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/23/sony-reader-pre-order-now-live-in-the-uk-shipping-in-september/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/23/sony-reader-pre-order-now-live-in-the-uk-shipping-in-september/Jul 23rd 2008 5:07PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/23/sony-reader-pre-order-now-live-in-the-uk-shipping-in-september/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/23/sony-reader-pre-order-now-live-in-the-uk-shipping-in-september/Jul 23rd 2008 5:13PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/23/sony-reader-pre-order-now-live-in-the-uk-shipping-in-september/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/23/sony-reader-pre-order-now-live-in-the-uk-shipping-in-september/
Anyone else care to be more helpful?]]>Jul 23rd 2008 5:31PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/23/sony-reader-pre-order-now-live-in-the-uk-shipping-in-september/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/23/sony-reader-pre-order-now-live-in-the-uk-shipping-in-september/http://www.sony.co.uk/hub/id/1216130668486]]>Jul 23rd 2008 5:49PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/23/sony-reader-pre-order-now-live-in-the-uk-shipping-in-september/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/23/sony-reader-pre-order-now-live-in-the-uk-shipping-in-september/Jul 23rd 2008 5:08PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/23/sony-reader-pre-order-now-live-in-the-uk-shipping-in-september/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/23/sony-reader-pre-order-now-live-in-the-uk-shipping-in-september/Jul 23rd 2008 5:15PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/23/sony-reader-pre-order-now-live-in-the-uk-shipping-in-september/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/23/sony-reader-pre-order-now-live-in-the-uk-shipping-in-september/Jul 23rd 2008 5:37PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/23/sony-reader-pre-order-now-live-in-the-uk-shipping-in-september/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/23/sony-reader-pre-order-now-live-in-the-uk-shipping-in-september/Jul 23rd 2008 5:21PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/23/sony-reader-pre-order-now-live-in-the-uk-shipping-in-september/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/23/sony-reader-pre-order-now-live-in-the-uk-shipping-in-september/Jul 23rd 2008 5:45PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/23/sony-reader-pre-order-now-live-in-the-uk-shipping-in-september/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/23/sony-reader-pre-order-now-live-in-the-uk-shipping-in-september/Jul 23rd 2008 5:44PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/23/sony-reader-pre-order-now-live-in-the-uk-shipping-in-september/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/23/sony-reader-pre-order-now-live-in-the-uk-shipping-in-september/Jul 24th 2008 6:33AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/23/sony-reader-pre-order-now-live-in-the-uk-shipping-in-september/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/23/sony-reader-pre-order-now-live-in-the-uk-shipping-in-september/Jul 23rd 2008 5:47PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/23/sony-reader-pre-order-now-live-in-the-uk-shipping-in-september/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/23/sony-reader-pre-order-now-live-in-the-uk-shipping-in-september/You stand on a line. ]]>Jul 23rd 2008 7:04PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/23/sony-reader-pre-order-now-live-in-the-uk-shipping-in-september/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/23/sony-reader-pre-order-now-live-in-the-uk-shipping-in-september/
anyways, I see market for this only for older folks who are not into mobile phones. I believe mobile phones will act as an ebook reader for the younger ones.]]>Jul 23rd 2008 8:04PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/23/sony-reader-pre-order-now-live-in-the-uk-shipping-in-september/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/23/sony-reader-pre-order-now-live-in-the-uk-shipping-in-september/
Though I'm not an Apple fanboi (Zune owner here), with the iPod Touch / iPhone now getting support from eReader, will it bite into this market?]]>Jul 23rd 2008 8:24PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/23/sony-reader-pre-order-now-live-in-the-uk-shipping-in-september/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/23/sony-reader-pre-order-now-live-in-the-uk-shipping-in-september/
Well comparatively. ]]>Jul 23rd 2008 9:52PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/23/sony-reader-pre-order-now-live-in-the-uk-shipping-in-september/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/23/sony-reader-pre-order-now-live-in-the-uk-shipping-in-september/Jul 23rd 2008 10:48PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/23/sony-reader-pre-order-now-live-in-the-uk-shipping-in-september/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/23/sony-reader-pre-order-now-live-in-the-uk-shipping-in-september/Jul 24th 2008 1:58AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/23/sony-reader-pre-order-now-live-in-the-uk-shipping-in-september/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/23/sony-reader-pre-order-now-live-in-the-uk-shipping-in-september/
If apple release an iTablet, it'll be a tablet computer. Read the comment above this to see why computer/phone screens are not suited to ebook reading.

Some kind of iReader might be a different kettle of fish, but I doubt that will happen.]]>Jul 24th 2008 10:26AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/23/sony-reader-pre-order-now-live-in-the-uk-shipping-in-september/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/23/sony-reader-pre-order-now-live-in-the-uk-shipping-in-september/]]>Jul 24th 2008 1:32AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/23/sony-reader-pre-order-now-live-in-the-uk-shipping-in-september/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/23/sony-reader-pre-order-now-live-in-the-uk-shipping-in-september/Jul 26th 2008 12:06PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/23/sony-reader-pre-order-now-live-in-the-uk-shipping-in-september/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/23/sony-reader-pre-order-now-live-in-the-uk-shipping-in-september/http://www.waterstones.com/waterstonesweb/displayProductDetails.do?sku=6337796 ]]>Jul 24th 2008 4:49AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/23/sony-reader-pre-order-now-live-in-the-uk-shipping-in-september/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/23/sony-reader-pre-order-now-live-in-the-uk-shipping-in-september/http://www.internetevolution.com/author.asp?section_id=526&doc_id=139702&f_src=flffour are the lack of an extensive library, the cost and the inability to access web content like weblogs.]]>Jul 24th 2008 11:41AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/23/sony-reader-pre-order-now-live-in-the-uk-shipping-in-september/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/23/sony-reader-pre-order-now-live-in-the-uk-shipping-in-september/
That article is from a few days after the Kindle came out. There was a lot of incomplete and inaccurate information posted then and much of what was true then has changed in the mean time.

As of today, the Amazon Kindle store offers 146,393 Kindle books for sale. That is up about 20K over last month. In addition there are many other sites out that that offer lots of ebooks, many free. These are often available in formats suitable for both the Kindle and the Sony Reader.

The price is now down to $360. The Kindle can read most blogs using its web browser. Amazon does offer a fee-based service to deliver blog articles directly to your Kindle as new entries are published. The advantage is this kind of push delivery that is faster to access. Probably not the most compelling feature for most people, but some will appreciate the convenience.]]>Jul 26th 2008 12:16PM