‘E-book readers check into hotels’
“Open the nightstand in some hotels these days and you’ll find a Sony Reader alongside the bible. Expanding a hotel trend of offering access to high-tech amenities like iPods, a number of establishments are now adding complimentary e-book readers to their lists of perks.” – CNET, via Elektrolese.
The TeleRead take: Some hotels are offering Kindles. I wonder about the licensing situation. Are the hotels taking chances, or is Amazon more helpful to them than to public libraries, where, last I know, things were still on the ambiguous side?
Related: The Kindle 2’s new $299 price (TeleRead item here). Will Sony drop its prices, too—since its readers lack the Kindle’s wireless?
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Image info: Seanosh’s CC-licensed photo of Miami’s Epic Hotel, which offers Sonys. The lower left shot is a file photo from Amazon and was presumably not taken in a hotel.
July 9th, 2009 at 11:36 am
Hmph… I’m going to the wrong hotels…