Keen readers may have noticed that Sony
is slowly working on wrapping up its
CONNECT e-book webstore. Although their site is still up and down like a yoyo here, our reader TaKir was able to make the following
pleasant discovery through one of Sony's FAQ pages:
The Sony Reader will be in Sony's BBeB format; however, the Reader will support PDF, TXT, RTF, MP3 and JPG as native formats with no conversions needed. The Sony Reader software will also be able to convert Microsoft Word documents into RTF files to be read.
That's great news especially for Mac users who may or may not be able to use Sony's conversion tool to convert other e-book formats into the proprietary BBeB format.
According to the same FAQ, the Sony Reader is slated to be available in summer 2006 (and not in spring 2006 as previously mentioned).
Related: Adobe blogger on Sony's BBeB format,
Sony's new e-book reader officially announced