Sony Reader Scoop From Gizmodo

[Wayde]

Gizmodo has lots of inside info on the Sony Reader. It’s an upcoming gadget I’ve been particularly interested in. It’s one of the first major devices to use a new display technology called E Ink. E Ink is an extremely low energy flat display that makes LCD seem glutinous by comparison. Now that it exists in color we should start seeing E Ink in interesting places.

Reader has a monochrome display but the difference is that it requires outside lighting, it doesn’t generate any light on its own. No light contrast reading makes it easier on the eyes and appears much like reading actual paper and ink. The Reader is like a PDA on which you store literature. Part of Sony’s tactic here is an online ‘book’ service called The CONNECT. Sony hopes it’s the new iTunes of literature.

The latest info offered by Gizmodo is that Sony has finally made up its mind about the price and availability of the device. You’ll be able to buy your own Sony Reader in October and it’ll set you back $350. The purchase will come with $50 worth of credit at The CONNECT so you can fill your reader with some of the latest E-Books from Sony’s online bookstore. Sony better get on this now, I’ve been looking around for a North American CONNECT store online and it looks like so far it’s Europe only. Maybe Sony doesn’t think North Americans bother to read anymore.


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