I was reading Engadget and followed a link from there to
http://blog.laptopmag.com/sony-promi...support-coming
The blogger did an interview with the senior vice president of Sony’s InformationTechnology Products Division. Not sure when the interview took place but the blog was posted today. Here's a quote from it.
"Is there any similar collaboration going on with the Sony Reader team?
There was a reorganization that occurred at Sony where PlayStation, VAIO, Walkman, and Reader came under the same electronics group. As such, with those categories being put together under one umbrella we need to collaborate. I also see a better integration of Reader with VAIO products."
Doesn't mention the discontinuation of the reader and instead mentions more integration with their other products. Unless that's Sony's round about way of saying, instead of now reading your ebooks on a reader, you can now only read them on their laptops/netbooks.
If sony is updating their line of readers, I think they planned it poorly by discontinuing the current models w/o the new replacements yet, especially since Amazon recently dropped the price of the K2. Impulse buyers are probably picking up Kindle's instead of mulling over a Sony.