This is from a press release I received this morning from Sony:
… Sony today announced a new relationship with Dow Jones & Company for content offerings from The Wall Street Journal and MarketWatch, part of The Wall Street Journal Digital Network, for wireless delivery to the Reader Daily Edition™.
In addition, Sony has reached an agreement with the New York Post to exclusively offer the only version of the New York Post for digital reading devices. These new offerings will be available soon in Sony’s newly branded Reader™ Store (readerstore.sony.com). The Reader Daily Edition with wireless 3G connectivity is available for pre-sale at SonyStyle Stores and online at SonyStyle.com. Under the agreements, Sony’s Reader Daily Edition™ will be the premier digital reading device for The Wall Street Journal and New York Post. The publishers will jointly market the devices with Sony in these two leading daily newspapers. …ow Jones, the New York Post and Sony are offering exclusive daily content packages available only through Sony’s Reader Store for wireless delivery to the Reader Daily Edition. The Reader Daily Edition is optimized for newspapers and offers that content in an elegant, easy-to-read format that is intuitive to navigate. The Reader’s touch screen lets readers experience newspapers like never before – letting them highlight, take notes and even look up words on the device’s integrated dictionary.
The Wall Street Journal digital edition provides essential and relevant information from the world’s most trusted business news source. It will be delivered wirelessly to the Reader Daily Edition each morning. Subscriptions are $14.99 a month. Exclusive packages for the Reader store include:
The Wall Street Journal PLUS: In addition to the day’s full morning digital edition, WSJ PLUS provides a supplementary bulletin delivery after the close of the markets, giving a comprehensive summary of the day’s world and business events. The monthly subscription for the morning paper and evening bulletin is $19.99.
MarketWatch Today: This offering, only available on Reader Store, extracts the day’s most important feature stories and analysis from MarketWatch.com and delivers them directly to the Reader. A subscription will cost $10.99 a month.
New York Post: Now Readers can get all of the hottest news, gossip and sports reporting on their Reader. The New York Post debuts its exclusive digital reader version, available only for wireless delivery to the Sony Reader Daily Edition. A subscription for the New York Post Digital Reader Edition costs $9.99 a month.
The Wall Street Journal digital edition and MarketWatch Today will be available in the next few days. The Wall Street Journal PLUS and New York Post will be available in January. Readers can also get a 14-day free trial of any of these delivery packages.
The Reader Daily Edition joins the Reader Pocket Edition™ and Reader Touch Edition™ to round out Sony’s complete family of digital readers. The Reader Daily Edition gives consumers wireless access to Reader Store from most of the U.S. via a 3G mobile broadband network. Book lovers can now browse, purchase and download books, as well as select newspapers and magazines on the go through Sony’s Reader Store.
The Reader Daily Edition features a responsive, menu-driven, seven-inch touch screen panel that enables quick, intuitive navigation, page turning, highlighting and note taking with the swipe of a finger or by using the included stylus pen. Users can take handwritten notes with the stylus pen or type with the virtual keyboard. All notes can be exported and printed out for easy reference. The Reader Daily Edition includes an onboard Oxford American English Dictionary that allows you to look up a word by simply tapping on it.
so it is a dedicated newswpaper reader device? COOL!