Comments on: Sony Reader E Ink machine to be sold at Borders http://www.teleread.org/2006/04/03/sony-reader-e-ink-machine-to-be-sold-at-borders/ News & views on e-books, libraries, publishing and related topics Sat, 21 Nov 2009 18:33:52 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Roland Rohde http://www.teleread.org/2006/04/03/sony-reader-e-ink-machine-to-be-sold-at-borders/comment-page-1/#comment-68899 Roland Rohde Wed, 12 Jul 2006 23:22:39 +0000 http://www.teleread.org/blog/?p=4605#comment-68899 There is a video review from PcMag.com showing the Sony Reader in action. You can find the link here: http://www.mobileread.com/forums/showthread.php?t=6980 There is a video review from PcMag.com showing the Sony Reader in action.

You can find the link here:
http://www.mobileread.com/forums/showthread.php?t=6980

]]> By: Roland Rohde http://www.teleread.org/2006/04/03/sony-reader-e-ink-machine-to-be-sold-at-borders/comment-page-1/#comment-68894 Roland Rohde Wed, 12 Jul 2006 21:51:44 +0000 http://www.teleread.org/blog/?p=4605#comment-68894 @Siad in the next few days you'll be able to get a lot more info about the iRex iliad because the first shipment of deivices seems ready to go at last. A few lucky ones will received their evices tomrrow (i'm among those lucky ones...^^) and a larger group should receive theirs on friday or beginning of next week. Maybe that will help you reach a decision between Sony and iRex. Most info will be at mobileread.com, but i'll try to put something up here at Teleread.org as well. @Siad

in the next few days you’ll be able to get a lot more info about the iRex iliad because the first shipment of deivices seems ready to go at last.
A few lucky ones will received their evices tomrrow (i’m among those lucky ones…^^) and a larger group should receive theirs on friday or beginning of next week.

Maybe that will help you reach a decision between Sony and iRex.
Most info will be at mobileread.com, but i’ll try to put something up here at Teleread.org as well.

]]> By: Siad http://www.teleread.org/2006/04/03/sony-reader-e-ink-machine-to-be-sold-at-borders/comment-page-1/#comment-68893 Siad Wed, 12 Jul 2006 21:31:52 +0000 http://www.teleread.org/blog/?p=4605#comment-68893 Still don't know if I will buy this or the iRex Iliad. :( Sony release it know please so I can just buy it and get it over with. Still don’t know if I will buy this or the iRex Iliad. :( Sony release it know please so I can just buy it and get it over with.

]]> By: TaKir http://www.teleread.org/2006/04/03/sony-reader-e-ink-machine-to-be-sold-at-borders/comment-page-1/#comment-55118 TaKir Tue, 04 Apr 2006 20:19:16 +0000 http://www.teleread.org/blog/?p=4605#comment-55118 2 chris: Here is the original from Sony's site: http://news.sel.sony.com/pressrelease/6594 2 chris:

Here is the original from Sony’s site:
http://news.sel.sony.com/pressrelease/6594

]]> By: chris http://www.teleread.org/2006/04/03/sony-reader-e-ink-machine-to-be-sold-at-borders/comment-page-1/#comment-55117 chris Tue, 04 Apr 2006 19:08:52 +0000 http://www.teleread.org/blog/?p=4605#comment-55117 How come the cNet article says the Sony Reader will be released in Summer. Wasn't the release date supposed to be spring? Anybody have any updated info? How come the cNet article says the Sony Reader will be released in Summer. Wasn’t the release date supposed to be spring?

Anybody have any updated info?

]]> By: Jake http://www.teleread.org/2006/04/03/sony-reader-e-ink-machine-to-be-sold-at-borders/comment-page-1/#comment-55111 Jake Tue, 04 Apr 2006 15:34:45 +0000 http://www.teleread.org/blog/?p=4605#comment-55111 This historical announcement caught me by surprise. It is not the way Sony usually plays. They often prefer to go it alone, perhaps dreaming of those salad days when Sony was the Apple of the consumer electronics world. Those days are long gone of course, following a number of very bad business decisions and a DRM-based paranoia that was positively scary. It is the first time two such major, powerful brands have embraced e-books to this extent and the possibilities are huge. In one step it could help transform the e-book from a small geeky sub-genre available via little-known internet sites to a mass market force that changes the publishing world forever. Borders bookstores are very popular places here in the U.S. A Sony-Borders alliance creates potential public exposure to e-books that is way, way beyond anything we have experienced so far in our little digital enclaves of e-book aficionados. I'll reserve my applause until public libraries can get involved somehow (after all, most of us commoners don't have the $$ to buy a fraction of the books we want/need to read) but this announcement jolted me more than my morning Starbucks fix. Ooh, a preloaded Sony Reader sold at Starbucks... the possibilities are endless. :) This historical announcement caught me by surprise. It is not the way Sony usually plays. They often prefer to go it alone, perhaps dreaming of those salad days when Sony was the Apple of the consumer electronics world. Those days are long gone of course, following a number of very bad business decisions and a DRM-based paranoia that was positively scary.

It is the first time two such major, powerful brands have embraced e-books to this extent and the possibilities are huge. In one step it could help transform the e-book from a small geeky sub-genre available via little-known internet sites to a mass market force that changes the publishing world forever. Borders bookstores are very popular places here in the U.S. A Sony-Borders alliance creates potential public exposure to e-books that is way, way beyond anything we have experienced so far in our little digital enclaves of e-book aficionados.
I’ll reserve my applause until public libraries can get involved somehow (after all, most of us commoners don’t have the $$ to buy a fraction of the books we want/need to read) but this announcement jolted me more than my morning Starbucks fix. Ooh, a preloaded Sony Reader sold at Starbucks… the possibilities are endless. :)

]]> By: Dear Author.Com » Will Sony’s E-Ink device transform the ebook vista? http://www.teleread.org/2006/04/03/sony-reader-e-ink-machine-to-be-sold-at-borders/comment-page-1/#comment-55099 Dear Author.Com » Will Sony’s E-Ink device transform the ebook vista? Tue, 04 Apr 2006 13:21:46 +0000 http://www.teleread.org/blog/?p=4605#comment-55099 [...] At any time, Sony is going to release its E-Ink device. According to TeleRead.org, Sony’s ebook device is going to be available in Borders store. HarperCollins and RandomHouse have pleged to digitize their entire front list and backlist. I may buy a Sony E-Ink device just to spur the release of more ebooks. Please, big NY Publishers, start releasing all your books in digital format (and not Adobe PDF) at the same time you release the paper version. You might get more sales. Imagine! [...] [...] At any time, Sony is going to release its E-Ink device. According to TeleRead.org, Sony’s ebook device is going to be available in Borders store. HarperCollins and RandomHouse have pleged to digitize their entire front list and backlist. I may buy a Sony E-Ink device just to spur the release of more ebooks. Please, big NY Publishers, start releasing all your books in digital format (and not Adobe PDF) at the same time you release the paper version. You might get more sales. Imagine! [...]

]]> By: Roland Rohde http://www.teleread.org/2006/04/03/sony-reader-e-ink-machine-to-be-sold-at-borders/comment-page-1/#comment-55077 Roland Rohde Tue, 04 Apr 2006 07:06:42 +0000 http://www.teleread.org/blog/?p=4605#comment-55077 well...there is always hope... well…there is always hope…

]]> By: bowerbird http://www.teleread.org/2006/04/03/sony-reader-e-ink-machine-to-be-sold-at-borders/comment-page-1/#comment-55075 bowerbird Tue, 04 Apr 2006 06:41:21 +0000 http://www.teleread.org/blog/?p=4605#comment-55075 gemstar sold their machines in barnes and noble. didn't seem to help them establish anything solid. -bowerbird gemstar sold their machines in barnes and noble.
didn’t seem to help them establish anything solid.

-bowerbird

]]> By: luag http://www.teleread.org/2006/04/03/sony-reader-e-ink-machine-to-be-sold-at-borders/comment-page-1/#comment-55061 luag Tue, 04 Apr 2006 03:49:45 +0000 http://www.teleread.org/blog/?p=4605#comment-55061 Sony is using their muscles! :D For a bright future of E-books! Cheers! Sony is using their muscles!
:D
For a bright future of E-books!
Cheers!

]]> By: Dear Author.Com » Will Sony’s E-Ink device transform the ebook vista? http://www.teleread.org/2006/04/03/sony-reader-e-ink-machine-to-be-sold-at-borders/comment-page-1/#comment-55057 Dear Author.Com » Will Sony’s E-Ink device transform the ebook vista? Tue, 04 Apr 2006 02:24:42 +0000 http://www.teleread.org/blog/?p=4605#comment-55057 [...] At any time, Sony is going to release its E-Ink device. According to TeleRead.org, Sony’s ebook device is going to be available in Borders store.  HarperCollins and RandomHouse have pleged to digitize their entire front list and backlist.  I may buy a Sony E-Ink device just to spur the release of more ebooks.  Please, big NY Publishers, start releasing all your books in digital format (and not Adobe PDF) at the same time you release the paper version.  You might get more sales.  Imagine! [...] [...] At any time, Sony is going to release its E-Ink device. According to TeleRead.org, Sony’s ebook device is going to be available in Borders store.  HarperCollins and RandomHouse have pleged to digitize their entire front list and backlist.  I may buy a Sony E-Ink device just to spur the release of more ebooks.  Please, big NY Publishers, start releasing all your books in digital format (and not Adobe PDF) at the same time you release the paper version.  You might get more sales.  Imagine! [...]

]]> By: Snappy! http://www.teleread.org/2006/04/03/sony-reader-e-ink-machine-to-be-sold-at-borders/comment-page-1/#comment-55055 Snappy! Tue, 04 Apr 2006 00:20:49 +0000 http://www.teleread.org/blog/?p=4605#comment-55055 Wow ... this is potentially a turning point in book/ebook history! Consider this: By going retail, what if users start seeing "ePaperbacks" appearing as a plastic shrink box with a small booklet containing the Book summary, Author's BIO and a MS (or SD) card? And as part of launch promotion, its priced slightly lower than normal paperbacks. And how about having normal paperbacks come with a low-capacity MS card? Maybe these MS card can be readonly cards or something? Wow … this is potentially a turning point in book/ebook history!

Consider this: By going retail, what if users start seeing “ePaperbacks” appearing as a plastic shrink box with a small booklet containing the Book summary, Author’s BIO and a MS (or SD) card? And as part of launch promotion, its priced slightly lower than normal paperbacks.

And how about having normal paperbacks come with a low-capacity MS card?

Maybe these MS card can be readonly cards or something?

]]> By: periphero.us » Blog Archive » Sony Portable Reader to be sold at Borders bookstores http://www.teleread.org/2006/04/03/sony-reader-e-ink-machine-to-be-sold-at-borders/comment-page-1/#comment-55054 periphero.us » Blog Archive » Sony Portable Reader to be sold at Borders bookstores Mon, 03 Apr 2006 23:30:39 +0000 http://www.teleread.org/blog/?p=4605#comment-55054 [...] TeleRead.org is reporting that Sony will be selling it’s new e-Reader device at about 200 Borders bookstores in the U.S. The stores seem almost ubiquitious through many areas, and it looks like an ideal way to work into a strong potential market. Every retail push of this sort is a win for not just Sony, but for e-book readers in general. And a convenient purchase location is likely to influence many of the e-book reader fans that are having trouble deciding between models. Full details are available in the Sony press release. MobileRead Networks [...] [...] TeleRead.org is reporting that Sony will be selling it’s new e-Reader device at about 200 Borders bookstores in the U.S. The stores seem almost ubiquitious through many areas, and it looks like an ideal way to work into a strong potential market. Every retail push of this sort is a win for not just Sony, but for e-book readers in general. And a convenient purchase location is likely to influence many of the e-book reader fans that are having trouble deciding between models. Full details are available in the Sony press release. MobileRead Networks [...]

]]> By: JerryWojo http://www.teleread.org/2006/04/03/sony-reader-e-ink-machine-to-be-sold-at-borders/comment-page-1/#comment-55048 JerryWojo Mon, 03 Apr 2006 21:47:42 +0000 http://www.teleread.org/blog/?p=4605#comment-55048 Reading a few of the CES reviews on this device only left me wanting a more robust hands-on review. My biggie question is how well it converts. The small print at the Sony site indicates a conversion proccess to Sony's proprietary format "BBeB" is needed...oh fun. Okay fine no surprise there....however... The Sony site says it will take "personal documents". "Personal Document" ? Okay how bout...can it convert plain old text and html to BBeB? I don't want to be tied into buying books from their store. Conversion is the "key" sell point for me. With all the convert to text/html software out there being able to convert text or html files to BBeB would make buying this worthwhile, methinks. Reading a few of the CES reviews on this device only left me wanting a more robust hands-on review.

My biggie question is how well it converts. The small print at the Sony site indicates a conversion proccess to Sony’s proprietary format “BBeB” is needed…oh fun.

Okay fine no surprise there….however…

The Sony site says it will take “personal documents”.
“Personal Document” ?

Okay how bout…can it convert plain old text and html to BBeB?

I don’t want to be tied into buying books from their store. Conversion is the “key” sell point for me.

With all the convert to text/html software out there being able to convert text or html files to BBeB would make buying this worthwhile, methinks.

]]> By: Trey Hardy http://www.teleread.org/2006/04/03/sony-reader-e-ink-machine-to-be-sold-at-borders/comment-page-1/#comment-55044 Trey Hardy Mon, 03 Apr 2006 20:46:38 +0000 http://www.teleread.org/blog/?p=4605#comment-55044 Damnit, I swore day before yesterday that I would never shop at a Borders store again for that they did to the Free Inquiry magazine. I think there is a Sony store in the Crystal City mall by the Pentagon, I'm not sure but it's not far from where I live. I advise you all not to shop there either, if you don't know what I'm talking about look here: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060330/ap_on_re_us/prophet_drawings_1 Damnit, I swore day before yesterday that I would never shop at a Borders store again for that they did to the Free Inquiry magazine. I think there is a Sony store in the Crystal City mall by the Pentagon, I’m not sure but it’s not far from where I live. I advise you all not to shop there either, if you don’t know what I’m talking about look here:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060330/ap_on_re_us/prophet_drawings_1

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