[MGP-Forum Announce] Sony starts selling the Soney eBook reader: $349.00

[Jane Stevens]

they'll have to market to the over-50 crowd, the only group that  
really wants to read newspapers. everyone under 30 wants to see,  
hear, share, talk about, contribute to.......



On Sep 29, 2006, at 7:56 PM, Bill Densmore wrote:

>
> Sony Corp. has started taking orders for its Reader ERS-500, a  
> device the size of a large paperback novel which can store over 100  
> books and turn more than 7,000 "pages" before the battery starts to  
> run out. Cost:
> $349.00. See:
> http://www.sonystyle.com/is-bin/INTERSHOP.enfinity/eCS/Store/en/-/ 
> USD/SY_DisplayProductInformation-Start? 
> sssdmh=dm11.90807&ProductSKU=PRS500U2&Dept=audio&CategoryName=pa_pdr&h 
> qs=order
> It's considerably cheaper than the competing Irex Iliad, on  
> commentator
> says. And there's a small library of books to download:
> http://ebooks.connect.com/
>
> But this is black-and-white only. Isn't that a big barrier?  But  
> what this shows is the REALITY of very portable readers starting to  
> come on the market. It's fascinating to see that Sony will let you  
> lease one for $12 a month. This is going to have to be wireless  
> enabled before it is perfect, and color. The necessity of  
> downloading to your PC and then moving it into the eBook is a non- 
> starter. Not enough people will be bothered.
>
> But when that is solved, and the display is color, how long is it  
> going to be before enlightened former-newspaper companies say:  
> "Look, instead of paying $10 a month in print, we'll lease you an  
> eBook for $10 a month and you can use it for all kinds of other  
> information, too. All you have to do is download our paper everyday  
> (using a service like Clickshare (full disclosure: Bill Densmore is  
> a shareholder of Clickshare), we'll track that you did that, and  
> bill you)." Fine print: If you don't download our paper every day  
> (allowing us to claim ABC circulation) the cost is $25 a month, or  
> we repossess the eReader. Big print: "And by the way, you can use  
> your Brattleboro Newshare account to pay for an array of other  
> Internet content, too -- music, archives, movies, gameplays."
>
>
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