Tuesday, November 17, 2009

Steve Haber talks up Sony Readers in Kindle's backyard

Amazon.com's Kindle often gets credit for spurring the electronic book market, but it's sometimes overlooked that Sony had an e-reader on the market a full year before the first Kindle launched. Today I chatted with Steve Haber, the president of Sony's digital reading division, who spent the day in Seattle — Amazon turf — to talk up his company's new lineup of reading devices (the $199 Reader Pocket Edition, $299 Reader Touch Edition, and soon-to-be-released $399 Reader Daily Edition)...