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Sony Pocket and Touch ereaders available for preorder in the UK
August 26, 2009 | 9:53 am
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By Paul Biba
All of our UK readers will be happy about this. Note that the Daily Edition, the one with wireless, is not going to be available overseas for a while, if ever. Sony refused comment on non-US releases. This is from the ePub Books Blog which is headquartered in the UK:
… the two new Sony Readers (Pocket Edition & Touch Edition) are on pre-order over at Waterstones UK. I fully expected that us Brits would have to wait another year before being able to buy them, but it seems that Sony have done the right thing! …
The costs of the readers over at Waterstones is £179.99 for the Pocket Edition and £249.99 for the Touch Edition. Keeping in form with the PRS-505 prices, these are yet again much more expensive than our U.S. counterparts can get them for; $199 (~£120) and $299 (~£180) respectively
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Comments:
Waterstones have been under cut by Play.com.
See: http://www.play.com/Electronics/Electronics/-/2168/1435/3-/RegionHome.html?searchtype=genre
In my opinion, this whole thing sounds like the Blu-Ray vs. HD-DVD war, and before that, the Betamax vx. VHS war, technologically speaking. Much as I’d like to get an e-book reader, I think I’ll wait until the war is over–and the prices drop, as they already have for Blu-Ray players.
And WHSmith have undercut them both £160 and £220 – http://bit.ly/wG9Vf