Next Sony Reader in color and with moving pictures

Alexander Turcic · 05-11-2006, 06:31 AM

The Telegraph has a concise summary of current trends and challenges in the e-publishing industry. Summing it up:

Sony faces competition from iRex
Some argue that e-books fall short when compared to the sensory pleasures of a hardback ("velvety feel of their gently flickering pages beneath your fingertips")
Revolution in publishing could turn upcoming readers into "iPods for book-lovers"
Sony Reader is a "physical let-down" when compared to real paper
Color, moving images, annotations will come in the next development, says Sony
High price of the reader, plus the price of buying e-books, and DRM restrictions could lead e-publishing into another flop
Mobile phones used successfully in Japan to market electronic manga literature
Tachistoscopic reading: single words are flashed at a time which is supposed to improve human memory (I tried that once on my PDA and it gave me a splitting headache).

Laurens · 05-11-2006, 06:50 AM

Hm....

Quote:

...it is likely that Sony will be pipped to the post in the West by iRex, whose iLiad will be available online later this month with, iRex claims, a more competitive price tag than Sony's proposed £250.

doctorow · 05-11-2006, 06:53 AM

Unless the Sony Reader sells for considerably more in the UK than elsewhere, the price tag is wrong. £250 = $466. Everywhere else I read that the suggested price range lies between $299 and $399.

Laurens · 05-11-2006, 07:44 AM

Price could be correct, as you have to add about 17% VAT.

TaKir · 05-11-2006, 07:59 AM

"Next Sony Reader" sounds very comically, while we see no e-ink readers at all.
Neither from Sony, nor from Irex or other company... Librie is only one real thing ((

05-11-2006, 06:31 AM	#1
Alexander Turcic Fully Converged Posts: 18,163 Karma: 14021202 Join Date: Oct 2002 Location: Switzerland Device: Too many to count here.	Next Sony Reader in color and with moving pictures The Telegraph has a concise summary of current trends and challenges in the e-publishing industry. Summing it up: Sony faces competition from iRex Some argue that e-books fall short when compared to the sensory pleasures of a hardback ("velvety feel of their gently flickering pages beneath your fingertips") Revolution in publishing could turn upcoming readers into "iPods for book-lovers" Sony Reader is a "physical let-down" when compared to real paper Color, moving images, annotations will come in the next development, says Sony High price of the reader, plus the price of buying e-books, and DRM restrictions could lead e-publishing into another flop Mobile phones used successfully in Japan to market electronic manga literature Tachistoscopic reading: single words are flashed at a time which is supposed to improve human memory (I tried that once on my PDA and it gave me a splitting headache).

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05-11-2006, 06:53 AM	#3
doctorow Guru Posts: 914 Karma: 3410461 Join Date: May 2004 Device: Kindle Touch	Unless the Sony Reader sells for considerably more in the UK than elsewhere, the price tag is wrong. £250 = $466. Everywhere else I read that the suggested price range lies between $299 and $399.

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Laurens Jah Blessed Posts: 1,295 Karma: 1373 Join Date: Apr 2003 Location: The Netherlands Device: iPod Touch	Price could be correct, as you have to add about 17% VAT.

05-11-2006, 07:59 AM	#5
TaKir Keine Ursache! )) Posts: 146 Karma: 63 Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Almost everywhere Device: Lbook V8 & V3_Vizplex	"Next Sony Reader" sounds very comically, while we see no e-ink readers at all. Neither from Sony, nor from Irex or other company... Librie is only one real thing ((