{"id":531,"date":"2006-01-05T07:17:05","date_gmt":"2006-01-05T07:17:05","guid":{"rendered":"\/ifbookblog\/?p=531"},"modified":"2006-01-05T07:17:05","modified_gmt":"2006-01-05T07:17:05","slug":"first_sighting_of_sony_ebook_r","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/2006\/01\/05\/first_sighting_of_sony_ebook_r\/","title":{"rendered":"first sighting of sony ebook reader"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>this is a late addition to this post.  i just realized that whatever the strengths and weaknesses of the Sony ebook reader, i think that most of the people writing about it, including me, have missed perhaps the most important aspect &#8212; the device has Sony&#8217;s name on it. correct me if i&#8217;m wrong, but this is the first time a major consumer electronics company has seen fit to put their name on a ebook reader in the US market.  it&#8217;s been a long time coming.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.reuters.com\/2006\/01\/04\/glimpse-at-new-sony-reader\/\">Reuters<\/a> posted this image by Rick Wilking. every post i&#8217;ve seen so far is pessimistic about sony&#8217;s chances.  i&#8217;m doubtful myself, but will wait to see what kind of digital rights management they&#8217;ve installed. if it&#8217;s easy to take<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"SonyBookReader.jpg\" title=\"image source: Rick Wilking, Reuters\" src=\"\/blog\/archives\/SonyBookReader.jpg\" width=\"540\" height=\"386\" alt=\"tagcloud\" title=\"image source: Rick Wilking, Reuters\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nthings off my desktop to read later, including pdfs and web pages, and if the MP3 player feature is any good they might be able to carve out a niche which they can expand over time if they keep developing the concept.  i do wish it were a bit more stylish . . .<br \/>\nhere&#8217;s a link to ben&#8217;s excellent post <a href=\"\/blog\/archives\/2005\/10\/an_ipod_for_tex.html\">ipod for text<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>this is a late addition to this post. i just realized that whatever the strengths and weaknesses of the Sony ebook reader, i think that most of the people writing about it, including me, have missed perhaps the most important aspect &#8212; the device has Sony&#8217;s name on it. correct me if i&#8217;m wrong, but [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[490,540,548,717,1066,1742,1849],"tags":[2914],"class_list":["post-531","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-digital_book","category-e-ink","category-ebook","category-gadget","category-librie","category-sony","category-the-ideal-device","tag-sony-librie-ebook-e-ink-digital_book-gadget"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/531","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=531"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/531\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=531"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=531"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=531"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}