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Sony Daily Edition eReader Shipping no comments
Sony announced today that the Daily Edition ereader is now shipping. Customers who pre-ordered from SonyStyle.com through December 20 should receive their new ereaders within the next 48 hours.
The Daily Edition is now backordered and new orders will not ship until
sometime after the new year.
A few days ago Sony announced agreements to add several newspapers to the Reader Store. More newspapers should be arriving soon. You can subscribe on a monthly basis or buy single editions. The Daily Edition will receive newspapers through the wireless connection, while the Touch Edition and Pocket edition ereaders will need to sideload via a computer.
Sony has agreements in place with a host of additional magazine and newspaper publishers. Subscriptions to the following newspapers and magazines will be available soon:
- Barron’s
- The Boston Globe
- The Dallas Morning News
- International Herald Tribune
- The New York Times
- The Providence Journal
- The Washington Times
- The Baltimore Sun
- The New York Observer
- The Denver Post
- The Salt Lake Tribune
- San Jose Mercury News
- Christian Science Monitor
- The Columbus Dispatch
- Reason
- New York Review of Books
More will follow in the coming weeks and months.
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Sony Daily Edition eReader Available for Pre-Order no comments
Sony’s Daily Edition ereader with wireless and a 7” e-ink touchscreen is now available for pre-order. The estimated arrival date if you order one is December 21 – 28, at least according to Best Buy.com, so it may not arrive by Christmas.
Sony Style lists a shipping date of December 18 – January 8. One thing to consider is that Best Buy does have a friendlier return policy.
Update 11/19: Best Buy now says “expected to ship 12/18 – 1/8” on the product description. If you click on “Check Shipping and Availability” you are told that the expected arrival time will be 12/21 – 28. Probably orders first in line will start shipping on 12/18.
Sony appears to be expecting the Daily Edition ereader to sell out in the pre-order phase. An article today in Reuters seems to indicate that this is based on the huge number of people that requested notification when a release date was set for the Daily Edition. Just a thought here – I wonder if most of these requests occurred just after Sony’s press conference announcing the Daily Edition ereader, and before the Touch Edition ereader actually became available for review. There have been a number of unfavorable reviews of the Touch, primarily because of readability issues caused by the touchscreen. I don’t expect an improvement of this problem with the Daily Edition, and I wonder how many of these notification requests will result in actual sales. We will have to stay tuned.
