Connect Reader (Sony @ CES 2006)
To coincide with the new e-reader recently announced at CES by Sony, the Connect team is going to offer a subscription service that will offer more than 10,000 titles in its inital debut that will be easy on DRM (up to 6 devices, which is quite generous in our opinion). This program is officially called “Connect Reader,” and will be a completely seperate entitity aside from Connect Player. E-Books will range from $8.99 and beyond, and it will “be very easy to import *.pdf’s, *.txt’s and so on.” A few pictures after the jump..
We’ll have a very authorative review of the new e-reader device with pictures and even a movie of page transitions. It was very impressive.
If the reader is cheap enough this is the kind of thing that could really take off. Being able to view downloaded magazines, textbooks, articles etc in pdf format.. not bad. Battery would have to kick ass tho; I’ve read that it could be about 15 books worth. Pretty good! Looking forward to more information on this.
[...] We’re a little late with this summation, but some technical difficulties arose with the video and it was necessary to shop around to find the best way to distribute it without killing our bandwidth. Nonetheless, during Sony’s expo at CES ‘06, the new E-Reader was in major focus as well as the new Connect Reader service we covered that will coincide with it when the product rolls out in March. Read further for some new specifications, pictures, and more video. [...]
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