There was a time when Sony ereaders were the best options available to early e-book adopters. That was before Amazon stole Sony’s thunder by introducing the first generation Kindle. Since then, Sony has struggled to stay relevant in the e-reader business. The company was simply not agile enough to compete with Amazon. Its e-book ecosystem [...]

While Amazon, B&N, and Borders have been busy making changes and offering new deals on their e-readers, Sony has been awfully quite. Considering that Sony was the e-book reader market’s leader just a few years ago, one has to wonder what the company has planned to save its e-reader business. According to Sony Insider, two [...]

What happened to Sony? It does feel as if Sony Readers have fallen off the face of the Earth. Everybody is talking about how attractive nook is or how long Kindle 3′s battery can last. We just do not hear so much about Sony and its e-reader products anymore. That is unfortunate as a few [...]

I am a big fan of Kindle. I own a couple of Kindles. I have also tried to give other e-book readers a shot. Sony Reader was my first e-book reader before I made the switch to Kindle. To be fair, a lot of time has passed, and many new competitors have shown up to [...]

It’s not exactly breaking news. We have known for a while that Sony has been working on two new e-book readers to challenge Amazon Kindle in the e-book market. Now we know there will be a third Sony Reader available to consumers soon. Sony was in the e-book reader business before Amazon got started. But [...]

The e-book reader wars are finally going to get started now that Sony has decided to challenge Amazon with new e-book readers and content partnerships. Amazon has a decent lead in the e-book market, and it was all due Kindle having the most content and best features on the market. Sony and other Amazon competitors [...]

Many experts have talked about in the past that whichever company solves the content access riddle will probably win the e-book reader wars. It’s given that Sony was in the game way before Amazon entered the market. But Amazon’s innovative features and the overall Kindle experience has given Amazon a huge momentum in the e-book [...]

I still remember how a few weeks ago people were talking about how Stanza was going to challenge Amazon Kindle by letting people read e-books on their iPhones. That’s before Amazon came out with its own application for the iPhone platform. It seems Amazon is not done with its adventures in the mobile world. Lexcycle [...]

A few months ago, I wrote a piece on how Google was building its content network for a potential show-down with Amazon over the e-book market supremacy. There was never a question that Google would not come up with its own hardware in this market. But a partnership with a Kindle competitor was always on [...]