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Sony has sold 300,000 E-readers

Sony has revealed that global sales for its E-reader have topped 300,000.

Target to sell Sony Reader in the US

Mass-market chain store Target has started selling the Sony E-reader in its stores across the US.

Complaints about exclusive French deal on Sony e-reader

The Sony e-reader is about to be released in France, in an excusive deal with Hachette Livre and retail chain Fnac. But other retailers, led by Virgin Megastore, have condemned the exclusivity of the ...

Sony adopts .EPUB standard; Reader on sale in the UK

Sony has adopted the .EPUB standard for e-books for its Sony Reader device, opening it up to allow e-books from many different sources to be read on the Sony Reader. The Reader is also set to go on sa...

Hachette acquires French e-book distributor

Hachette Livre has acquired French digital book distributor Numilog. The move comes ahead of the expected released of the Sony E-reader in France later this year.

Borders and Sony team up for US e-book store

In the US, Borders has teamed with Sony to create an online e-book store to sell content for Sony's E-reader.

Sony e-reader a big hit in the UK

Sony's e-reader has apparently been a big hit in the UK, selling out its initial allocation in its first week on sale.

Sony donates 100 e-readers to university study

Sony has donated 100 of its e-readers to a US university in order to study how e-books can be used in several contexts: including within the library, in undergraduate and graduate classes, as res...

Will Waterstones be first in the UK to sell Sony e-reader?

The Bookseller reports that Waterstones is 'understood' to have signed an exclusive deal to sell the Sony E-reader in the UK.

UK publishers ponder ebook formats

As more and more UK-based publishers announce their e-book plans, it seems that .epub is the preferred format, indicating that most are betting that Sony's E-reader (which can read .epub)will bea...
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