Sony Pocket and Touch ereaders available for preorder in the UK
By Paul Biba
All of our UK readers will be happy about this. Note that the Daily Edition, the one with wireless, is not going to be available overseas for a while, if ever. Sony refused comment on non-US releases. This is from the ePub Books Blog which is headquartered in the UK:
… the two new Sony Readers (Pocket Edition & Touch Edition) are on pre-order over at Waterstones UK. I fully expected that us Brits would have to wait another year before being able to buy them, but it seems that Sony have done the right thing! …
The costs of the readers over at Waterstones is £179.99 for the Pocket Edition and £249.99 for the Touch Edition. Keeping in form with the PRS-505 prices, these are yet again much more expensive than our U.S. counterparts can get them for; $199 (~£120) and $299 (~£180) respectively
August 26th, 2009 at 11:43 am
Waterstones have been under cut by Play.com.
See: http://www.play.com/Electronics/Electronics/-/2168/1435/3-/RegionHome.html?searchtype=genre
August 26th, 2009 at 9:52 pm
In my opinion, this whole thing sounds like the Blu-Ray vs. HD-DVD war, and before that, the Betamax vx. VHS war, technologically speaking. Much as I’d like to get an e-book reader, I think I’ll wait until the war is over–and the prices drop, as they already have for Blu-Ray players.
August 27th, 2009 at 5:27 am
And WHSmith have undercut them both £160 and £220 - http://bit.ly/wG9Vf