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Originally Posted by jasonkchapman
With all the speculation going on around here, I bet it was tough to keep that under your hat!
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Not as much as you'd think -- the call was yesterday afternoon, so we only had to keep quiet about it for about nine hours -- not like last year when it was a bit over a full week. Anyway, that just about gave us time to write it up.
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Originally Posted by jasonkchapman
I do know that publisher support for the Sony hasn't flagged one bit, and that many houses are now feverishly trying to lock down e-rights for their back catalogs. I'm expecting a huge upswing in content availability in general, not just Sony-specific, over the next few months.
These are exciting times for the e-book industry.
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Exciting times, indeed, Jason, thanks for sharing that tidbit, it's
very interesting thrown on the pile.
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Originally Posted by Trenien
I have a librie and my brother bought himself a prs-500. Although both have the same screen, the dark casing of the later makes it seem much lighter than that of the former.
It really is striking: you have to put them side by side to realize they're really the same. It left me wondering about about darkening the casing of my librie...
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Thats good to know, Trenien, it's a reason to consider staying with the dark blue version of the 505, rather than the silver.
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Originally Posted by vivaldirules
In Sony's video of the 505 two things struck me compared to the 500: its thinness and the clarity of its screen. As someone who has seen and touched both, would you say the 500 is too light (i.e., does it feel cheap or uncomfortably "dropable") or comfortably lighter but solid? Is the screen display really superior or am I just overly optimistic? I'd love to see side-by-side images of the same ebook displayed on both devices.
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We haven't touched both yet -- this was conference call.
The 500 has a very nice heft to it (it's just over half a pound) and the new one is supposed to weigh about the same. The metal casing on the 500 makes it seem very robust (and several stories around here support that), I'd expect the new one to be similar, though I can't wait to actually, as you put it: see and touch the new one.
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Originally Posted by Xenophon
Did they say whether it does this for more than one level? If so, my wishes are answered... (  ) ...and I may have to consider how much I want a new reader. Also, did they say anything about how many of these new features will appear on the older model? This one, in particular, shouldn't be any problem. |
They didn't say if the sorted menus were multi-level or not ... I'd
guess they're probably just the two levels, but that
is a guess -- we won't know until someone looks for themselves and tells us.
Regarding the extra-U.S. bit, I apologize for not mentioning it in the main write up -- we were trying to get the article done in time to release it at the first possible second, and it just plain slipped my mind, along with several other details that will come up shortly, I'm sure.