Sony has now released its Android app. It's available in the Android Market, but will only work with version 2.0 and above....

I am now starting my fourth year as an owner of a dedicated ereading device. Three Christmases ago, my wife bought me a Sony 505, my first dedicated ereading device and my first introduction to the eInk screen. This past October, I bought myself a new Sony 950 and passed my 505 on to my wife. As I have noted before, the 505 still works (and looks) as if brand new. With the 505 I noticed that I began to read more fiction in ebook form, yet my primary reading remained hardcover nonfiction. This really remained true until perhaps six to...

A Commentary by Steve Haber, President of Sony’s Digital Reading Business (via The Huffington Post): Regardless of its exact nature, technology will play an increasing role in shaping our future libraries. For centuries, the book publishing industry has worked closely with and supported libraries, and they have done so without influencing the freedom of the institution. It is now time for the technology industry to step up and play a similar role. [Clip] At Sony, we believe there is a place for public/private partnerships. That's why we're so excited to be working closely with libraries and librarians across the country as part of...

Just noticed that Woot is selling refurbished Sony Reader Touch Edition units for $99.99 today (Sunday). Shipping is $5. They come in black and red. You can find them here....

According to Bloomberg, Sony will start selling the readers for the first time since 2007. They hope to sell 300,000 readers in the first year through a venture with KDDICorp, Asahi Shimbun Publishing Corp. and Toppan Printing Co., who will provide the content. They will face some competition from Sharp which plans to start an Japanese ebookstyore service next month. Sony said in May that it plans to start selling ereaders in China, Italy, Span and Australia this year. In Japan the Pocket Edition will sell for about 20,000 yen ($240) and a bigger screen unit for about...

And they like it a lot. As a matter of fact Lisa Gade says that it is her personal favorite among e-ink readers. Here's the video review and you can find a lot more details in the written review here. ...

Good news for all the Sony Reader fans out there, and there are a lot of them. The Sony ebookstore says that applications for iOS and Android will be coming in December. According to the site you will be able to access books purchased in the Reader Store, get books from the Reader Store (I presume this means buy them through the application) and make bookmarks, notes, highlights and adjust font sizes. No date is given for the release....

From the press release: Rounding out availability for its beautifully-designed new line of Reader™ digital books, Sony today announced that the wireless Reader Daily Edition™ is now available in select retail outlets and online at SonyStyle.com. The new Reader Daily Edition, equipped with Wi-Fi® in addition to AT&T’s 3G network, will provide book lovers the ability to browse, purchase and download books as well as select newspapers and magazines on the go. Like the new Reader Pocket Edition™ and Reader Touch Edition™, the Reader Daily Edition is also outfitted with first-to-market optical touch screen technology, which enhances ease of use and...

I finally received my new Sony Reader, the PRS-950, and have been using it for the past few days. All I can say is WOW! The first thing I did was enter a subscription to the New York Times. If I didn’t enjoy reading the Times on it, then the plan was to return it. The second thing I did was load on Stieg Larsson’s The Girl Who Played with Fire, which I was in the middle of reading on my Sony PRS-505. I began “testing” the 950 by continuing to read Larsson’s book. Turns out, the new 950 weighs less than...

This weekend, Tim Carmody at Wired had a summation of the Blio Windows app’s first few days and the flak it’s taken from reviewers. It reportedly suffers from accessibility problems and text-to-speech conversion issues. Kurzweil has responded that the app was still undergoing improvements and a revised version will be released next month. An iOS 4 version is still in private beta. Carmody also mentions the controversy over Blio’s use of Feedbooks feeds without permission, and the fact that the Toshiba Blio store only has a little over half the titles of the main Blio store for reasons...

From the press release: Infinity Publishing (www.infinitypublishing.com), a pioneer in self-publishing, today announced that it has signed a distribution agreement with Sony to make Infinity eBooks available for purchase on Sony's Reader Store™. ... Infinity's eBooks will now be available for sale on Sony's Reader Store at http://ebookstore.sony.com, from which readers can download eBooks in open-standard formats that can be viewed on various eBook reading devices, including Sony's Reader. ...

The following is from Sony's press release. Unfortunately, it seems that Sony hasn't gone far enough. I see nothing mentioned about providing ereaders to cash-strapped libraries, or any other form of Sony Reader loan program. If Sony expects all the libraries' customers to have their own readers I think they sadly mistaken. Reaffirming its commitment to work with libraries in expanding their eBook collections and digital reading programs, Sony today announced the inaugural list of 30 participating libraries in the Reader Library Program. The participating libraries, from across 17 states, include the Brooklyn Public Library,...