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Sony announces Reader Daily Edition e-book

27 August 2009 2,266 views One Comment

Sony’s recently announced the third member of its new Reader family – the Reader Daily Edition . It’s a highly-anticipated wireless model with 3G connectivity. The Daily Edition caps new line of Reader products, joining Reader Pocket Edition and the Reader Touch Edition announced earlier this month.

Sony e-book Reader

Sony e-book Reader

A short review on Family of Three Readers:

The Reader Pocket Edition has a 5-inch electronic paper display packaged in a stylish chassis. It is available in three colors, including navy blue, rose and silver. With a ground-breaking price of $199, it is the most affordable dedicated reading device in market.

The Reader Touch Edition features a responsive, menu-driven 6-inch touchscreen panel enabling quick, intuitive navigation, page turning, highlighting and note taking with the swipe of a finger or included stylus pen. It comes in black, silver, or red, and retails for about $299.

Sony Reader Daily Edition

Sony Reader Daily Edition

The Reader Daily Edition gives consumers wireless access via broadband network to Sony’s eBook store from just about anywhere in U.S. Book lovers will be able to purchase, browse and download books, newspapers and magazines when and where they want.

There are no transaction charges or monthly fees for basic wireless connectivity. The seven-inch wide, touch screen display provides an intuitive navigation and comfortable layout of content.

Other features include visibility of 30-35 lines of text, high contrast ratio with 16 levels of grayscale, an attractive aluminum body with an integrated cover, internal memory to hold more than one thousand standard eBooks and expansion slots for memory cards to hold even more selling for about $399.

All three models feature Sony’s award-winning industrial design, with E Ink Vizplex electronic paper display which emulates the look of ink on paper. Sony’s eBook Library software 3.0 which makes it easy to transfer and read any Adobe PDF, EPUB, Microsoft Word, BBeB files, or other text file formats on the Reader.

Sony Reader Daily Edition will be available this December at SonyStyle stores and SonyStyle.com .

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