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Sony Adds More Newspapers; Barnes & Noble App for iPad no comments
Sony has announced the addition of more newspapers and magazines to its ebook store. Subscriptions are delivered wirelessly to the Reader Edition or sideloaded onto other Sony ereaders with the Sony Reader Library software.
From the press release:
The following periodicals are available now on the Reader Store:
" All Things Digital
" Chicago Tribune
" Financial Times
" Foreign Affairs
" International Herald Tribune
" Los Angeles Times
" MarketWatch Today
" New York Post
" National Review
" PC Magazine
" Reason
" San Jose Mercury News
" The Baltimore Sun
" The Boston Globe
" The Columbus Dispatch
" The Dallas Morning News
" The Denver Post
" The Nation
" The New York Observer
" The New York Times
" The Salt Lake Tribune
" The Wall Street Journal
" The Washington Times
Sony has agreements in place with a host of additional magazine and newspaper publishers. Subscriptions to the following newspapers, magazines and exclusive content will be available soon:
" Barron s
" China International Business
" Contra Costa Times
" Oakland Tribune
" Orlando Sentinel
" Newsday
" Popular Science Special Editions
" The Providence Journal
" The San Diego Union-Tribune
" The American Scholar
" The Asahi Shimbun
" The Christian Science Monitor
" The Guardian
" The Hartford Courant
" The Mainichi Daily News
" The New York Review of Books
" The Wall Street Journal Plus
Barnes & Noble eReader App for iPad
Barnes & Noble will be making a version of its eReader app for the iPad:
Designed specifically for the iPad, our new B&N eReader will give our customers access to more than one million eBooks, magazines and newspapers in the Barnes & Noble eBookstore, as well as the existing content in their Barnes & Noble digital library. (That includes eBooks and content customers have downloaded to their nook™ eBook reader.)
It still remains to be seen whether Apple will let ebook reading apps competing with its own onto the iPad. If Apple really wants to try to position the iPad as some sort of superior ereading device it would make sense to allow Kindle , B&N and other reading apps as this would allow access to the greatest amount of content.
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New York Times to Offer Stand-Alone Book Review Section for eReaders no comments
The New York Times currently will cost you $13.99 per month to subscribe on your Kindle, Sony or Barnes & Noble compatible ereader. The NYT apparently plans to break out its Book Review section and make it available as a separate product at an undisclosed price.
PoynterOnline reports that Times director of marketing James Dunn referred to the plan during an interview at the Digital Publishing Alliance. The Sony Reader Store will get the Book Section first in a few weeks, followed by the Kindle store and Barnes & Noble.
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Kindle DX Gobal eReader Coming? Sony eReaders get More Newspapers and Magazines no comments
Engadget has a screenshot of an Amazon Kindle DX page that includes the blurb “Kindle DX Now with Global Wireless”. The DX ereader is currently out of stock for another 2 – 3 weeks; perhaps when it returns it will be Kindle DX Global? Amazon had said that it would bring the same international wireless feature to the DX as it did to the smaller Kindle ereader.
Sony eReaders Get a Few More Newspapers
NewspaperDirect announced yesterday that its catalogue of more than 1,400 newspapers and periodicals will be available for Sony’s line of ereaders beginning on January 6.
NewspaperDirect carries publications from 93 different countries in 44 languages.
via Mediabistro.com
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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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A Few More Things Considered no comments
A roundup of several ereader related news stories from the last few days.
Borders Not Making Their Own eReader
Reuters reports that Borders Group, Inc. CEO Ron Marshall denies that Borders will make its own ereader. He cites reasons such as the expense and time required. Marshall also makes the point that while it may still be possible to launch a successful ereader product, the window of opportunity is closing fast, with the field due to become even more crowded in the near future.
Borders announced a partnership a few days ago with Kobo to sell ebooks on the Borders website. Marshall says that Border’s ebook strategy will be “device agnostic.”
Sounds like a good idea – we really don’t need any more me-too ereader clones.
Sony Gets Exclusive Content from WSJ and MarketWatch
A few days ago Sony announced a new relationship with Dow Jones & Co. for exclusive content from the Wall Street Journal and MarketWatch to be delivered wirelessly to the Sony Reader Daily Edition. Sony will also be offering the only version of the New York Post available on ereaders.
The monthly subscription for the WSJ will run $14.99 or $19.99 for WSJ Plus. The New York Post will be $9.99 per month, and Marketwatch Today will be $10.99 per month.
Sony’s Reader Store only seems to have three other newspapers at the moment besides the Wall Street Journal, though other newspapers should be available soon.
nook gets Rooted & Hacked
Last weekend nookDevs reported that they had successfully rooted the nook ereader, and in the last couple of days they have been apparently getting apps such as a browser to work on hacked nooks.
Rooting an Android-based device gives you administrative rights and the ability to alter system files, and therefore the ability to totally control the device.
This is nothing that the average nook ereader owner will want to do; rooting a nook involves invasive surgery that voids the warranty and could very well brick your ereader. However, in very short order we should begin to see some software hacks for the nook that will be more accessible.
Third party apps for the nook’s Android operating system have been something that some fans of the nook ereader have been hoping and waiting for. Barnes & Noble has so far not commented about nookDevs’ activities. When the nook was officially announced B&N kind of sort of left the door ajar to apps, but I doubt that they would be happy with a browser that would eat up bandwidth that B&N would be paying for. But wait, the nook has WiFi as well as an AT&T connection. Perhaps a browser that would work when the nook has a WiFi connection could fly.
The latest Kindle Chronicles podcast has an interview with the 18 year old high school student behind the nookDevs website.
Kindle DX Sold Out
Estimated shipping time on the Kindle DX is now four to six weeks.
Notion Ink Pixel Qi Tablet
Slashgear has a report about the first confirmed device to use the Pixel Qi display. The tablet should be unveiled at CES in January.
The device will reportedly be based on the Nvidia Tegra T20 chipset which supports 1080p HD video. There are lots of additional bells and whistles including WiFi and Bluetooth, GPS, digital compass and camera.
Pixel Qi could well prove to be the dark horse of 2010’s several new display technologies. With the ability to switch between a transmissive display mode like a regular LCD and a reflective epaper-like mode, Pixel Qi could be used to make multifunction devices and notebooks/netbooks into very viable reading platforms.
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