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“Sony may have missed the boat in the digital music player craze, but it’s going to try to regain any lost credibility with its coming Sony Reader product. The Sony Reader sounds like a compelling product in a market that hasn’t been cracked yet — digital books.

“The Wall Street Journal reported on the device Thursday, but gadget fans already knew about it from January’s Consumer Electronics Show. The WSJ article points out the obvious idea that Sony may have ceded the digital music player market to Apple but that maybe it can make headway in the digital-book market, which is, arguably, very much untapped.”

Alyce Lomax. Sony Seeks Novel Success. TheMotleyFool.com. Feb. 16, 2006.

See also:

Bill Rosenblatt. Sony to Launch eBook Reader in U.S. DRM Watch. Feb. 16, 2006.

Amanda Andrews. Will Reader Do for Books What iPod Did for Music? TimesOnline. Feb. 4, 2006.

Jonathan Sidener and Diane Lindquist. New Display Technology Takes a Page — Make That Thousands of Pages — From Pulp-Based Predecessors. SignOnSanDiego.com. Jan. 23, 2006.

Dylan Tweney. Screening the Bestseller. Wired News. Jan. 20, 2006.

John G. Spooner. Sony Envisions New Chapter in E-Book Story. Publish. Jan. 16, 2006.

Alfred Hermida. Sony Reader Targets Book Lovers. BBC News. Jan. 6, 2006.

Update:

Candace Lombardi. Borders To Sell Sony Digital Reading Device. News.com. April 3, 2006.

BusinessWeek Onliine. Digital Books Start A New Chapter. Feb. 27, 2006.

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