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Sony partners with Google to offer ebooks
Written on 19 Mar, 2009 at 19:10 in Featured, Technology | viewed 218 views times and users have made 0 comments so far
Google and Sony are expected to announce a non-exclusive digital books partnership today, a move that goes directly at Amazon and its new Kindle reader. With the Sony reader, there are still titles available for purchase online. But the Google catalog boosts Sony’s offerings by adding the more than 500,000 public domain books scanned by Google as part of its controversial book digitization project. Those titles will be made available for free. The move, announced today, dwarfs the roughly 245,000 closed-format titles currently available for the much-hyped Amazon Kindle.
Sony Reader With Touch Screen
Written on 7 Oct, 2008 at 10:26 in Product, Technology | viewed 409 views times and users have made 0 comments so far
One more gadget with the touch screen capability is in the market. PRS-700 is the third model of the Sony’s ebook reader which has a built-in light and a touch-sensitive display. The device also comes with a stylus, which can be used to highlight text or make handwritten notes. The reader will go on sale at the end of the month for about $400. A single battery charge offers up to 7,500 pages of reading. Sony’s introduction of touch screen capability set it apart from the competing Kindle reader by Amazon.