First, let me be clear that I have no real information here -- the up-side of which is that I'm completely free to offer my own speculations.
I do have a couple of
observations:
- Yes, in the past, Sony has done big promotional pushes when they put out a new Reader -- after they announce it. Before the announcement they've been as tight as Dick's hat band with info: whatever little they have let out ahead of time was under non-disclosure agreements, and the "ahead of time" has been on the order of a few days, or a week at most.
- They seem to be very fond of October 1st release dates for these things, of the three models they've put out, all three of them have launched on 10/01:
- PRS500 -- 10/01/06
- PRS505 -- 10/01/07
- PRS700 -- 10/01/08
Because of those observations, I would about half expect any new model to be launched on 10/01/09. However, if they're feeling sneaky, they might go earlier or later just to throw us off.
