Newly Unveiled Periodical Content Gives Consumers Coast-to-coast News Coverage Available for Wireless Delivery on Sony Reader Daily Edition

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Mar 10, 2010, 09:00 ET

SAN DIEGO and NEW YORK, March 10 /PRNewswire/ -- Giving readers greater access to an expanded selection of digital reading content, Sony today announced several recent newspaper and magazine additions to the Reader™ Store, which now offers a growing list of periodical content for wireless download on the Sony Reader Daily Edition™ or via Sony's Reader Library software on a PC or Macintosh computer. Since first unveiling periodical content on the Reader Store in December, Sony has worked with publishers to offer news lovers access to periodicals from coast-to-coast, including: The New York Times, International Herald Tribune, The Boston Globe, PC Magazine, The Dallas Morning News, Foreign Affairs, The Denver Post and San Jose Mercury News.

"The expanded breadth of periodical content on the Reader Store illustrates our focus on bringing readers access to the widest selection of content as well as our belief in the value of daily and weekly content delivered on a device designed to enhance the periodical experience," said Bob Nell, director of business development for Sony Electronics' Digital Reading Business. "Reader owners from across the country now have the opportunity to bring their daily newspaper or favorite magazine with them wherever they go, all with a simple touch of the screen."

The Reader Daily Edition is optimized for newspapers and displays periodical content in an elegant, easy-to-read format. Its responsive, menu-driven, seven-inch touch screen lets consumers quickly and intuitively navigate newspapers and magazines, turn pages, highlight text and take notes with the swipe of a finger or by using the included stylus pen.

New additions to the Reader Store join exclusive content from The Wall Street Journal and New York Post, as well as bestselling eBooks and new releases, self-published pieces from independent authors, links to borrow eBooks from libraries nationwide and more than one million free public domain books through Google Books. Since its inception in 2006, Sony's Reader Store has sold millions of titles.

The following periodicals are available now on the Reader Store:

All Things Digital
Chicago Tribune
Financial Times
Foreign Affairs
International Herald Tribune
Los Angeles Times
MarketWatch Today
New York Post
National Review
PC Magazine
Reason
San Jose Mercury News
The Baltimore Sun
The Boston Globe
The Columbus Dispatch
The Dallas Morning News
The Denver Post
The Nation
The New York Observer
The New York Times
The Salt Lake Tribune
The Wall Street Journal
The Washington Times

Sony has agreements in place with a host of additional magazine and newspaper publishers. Subscriptions to the following newspapers, magazines and exclusive content will be available soon:

Barron's
China International Business
Contra Costa Times
Oakland Tribune
Orlando Sentinel
Newsday
Popular Science Special Editions
The Providence Journal
The San Diego Union-Tribune
The American Scholar
The Asahi Shimbun
The Christian Science Monitor
The Guardian
The Hartford Courant
The Mainichi Daily News
The New York Review of Books
The Wall Street Journal Plus

For more details on the Reader Daily Edition please visit sonystyle.com or the Sony Electronics Community, which includes a corporate blog, video, photos, polls and profiles.

SOURCE Sony Electronics