e-book reader: short piece in NYT

[Ann Okerson <ann.okerson@yale.edu>]

The e-book reader re-emerges:

http://products.sel.sony.com/pa/prs/reader_features.html


April 4, 2006
Progress in Distributing New Book Formats
By MOTOKO RICH

Efforts to bring readers new formats for books are continuing as 
Sony Electronics announced a deal yesterday to sell its much 
vaunted Sony Reader in 200 Borders stores when the Reader begins 
sales in midsummer (a delay from original plans for spring). 
Borders will be the only book chain to sell the Reader at first. 
It will also be available at SonyStyle stores and online, and 
will cost $300 to $400. Borders will sell accessories and prepaid 
cards to use when downloading the books from Sony's Web site 
(connect.com). Several thousand titles will be available for the 
Reader.

In a separate deal, a consortium of nonprofit publishers, 
booksellers and a print-on-demand publisher announced that it was 
starting a project called Caravan, scheduled for spring 2007, to 
make 24 forthcoming titles simultaneously available in hardcover, 
paperback, print-on- demand, digital and audio formats. The idea 
is that no buyer should ever go into a bookstore and be turned 
away because the book is out of stock, said Peter Osnos, 
publisher of PublicAffairs and executive director of Caravan. 
Participating publishers include University of North Carolina 
Press, Yale University Press and the Council on Foreign Relations 
Press.

Copyright 2006 The New York Times
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