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If you’ve registered an interest with Sony, you should have already seen this, but if not, the news is that Sony have announced that from December 11th, their eBook Store will become a Reader™ Store (Not sure about that attempt to trademark ‘Reader’, by the way!) and they’re going to have their entire inventory of eBooks available in EPUB format!
There won’t be any changes to titles you’ve already got downloaded, but any new books or re-downloads of existing books you’ve bought from there will then only be available as EPUBs.
This may initially not make all that much difference, as the Sony’s eBook Store has only been available to US-based purchasers. With the later versions of the Sony Library software, it has been possible to access the site if your ‘Location’ setting was set to ‘US’, but once there you’d not be able to purchase much. On the other hand, they do periodically offer free titles that you can ‘buy’ without needing a payment method.
If there are titles that you do want to purchase from there, at present, the main options are to obtain a credit-card with a US address, to purchase some vouchers for the store via a third-party in the US – there’s no news that this is going to change with the other changes, though.
November 13th, 2011 at 7:53 am
I own a sony ereader bought in the UK. Havent downloaded any titles since my initial purchase of 3 books after I bought the unit. How does this new policy affect me? Have UK credit card and uk address.
November 22nd, 2011 at 11:06 pm
Only that you should be able to re-download the initial 3 books in ePub format, if they were originally in LRX format. In itself, not too big a deal, although it’s easier to read the ePub format on other readers than the Sony, e.g the iPad, should that be desired.
November 25th, 2011 at 5:23 pm
When will the uk sony book store come on line?
I have a prs T1 still saying coming soon
Pull your finger out sony………….
January 11th, 2012 at 7:32 pm
Still waiting sony!!!!