The Japanese electronics giant has signed an exclusive deal with News Corporation, owned by Rupert Murdoch, to give Reader users subscription-based access to publications through the ebook reader.
A monthly subscription to the Wall Street Journal will cost users $14.99, while access to the New York Post is priced at $9.99 per month. Robert Thomson, editor-in-chief of the Wall Street Journal, said that they would be earning a more favourable slice of revenue than the 30 per cent cut typically offered by Amazon to content providers.
Sir Howard Stringer, Sony's chief executive, said the company believed the move would help it compete more closely with Amazon's Kindle, the most popular ebook reader in the United States. "We obviously fell behind Amazon, but it's a long war, a long race," he said."We'll win the hardware war."
According to analysts at Forrester Research, Amazon's Kindle accounts for about 60 per cent of the US ebook reader market, with Sony's Reader range enjoying a 35 per cent market share. Sales of digital reading devices are expected to double to six million in 2010.
Telegraph
lørdag 2. januar 2010
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