eBooks: Sony adds 1 million public domain books
We finally go in the era of electronic book? If these devices are still expensive, going out in recent years the Sony Reader and Amazon Kindle have made the first step, especially by offering directly to consumers the availability of hundreds of thousands of titles on platforms.
The War of the content is also raging in the year 2009. Thus, as Amazon has more than 300 000 references, only to holders of Kindle and some products (iPhone and iPod Touch), Barnes & Noble recently opened a platform with more than 700 000 references, and most importantly, open to all (computers, smartphones, etc.). except readers competitors (Reader and Kindle therefore). Knowing that 500 000 titles have free source for Google Books.
Sony, who after missing the march of digital industry players did not want to be distanced in the market for digital books, has to react to this new competition, announcing availability yesterday for its Reader more than a million securities in the public domain, still from Google Books.
With this spin, the Japanese manufacturer is now ahead of Barnes & Noble and became the largest platform for ebooks in the world. We bet that this war of numbers is not complete, and that Amazon replicate offering more songs than its competitors.
Remember, Sony has offered to Reader in 2006 and that Amazon will follow not the following year. If Amazon’s device is still not available in France, that of Sony (Reader eBook specifically) currently costs 250 euros.
Plastic Logic, meanwhile, is expected to launch in early 2010 a large screen (21.5 by 28 centimeters to 6 millimeters thick), announced very light and has an endurance of several days. This product will be distributed exclusively by Barnes & Noble …
