Sony E-Reader Announces Newspaper Partners in Drips: 19 More after News Corp
Sony (NYSE: SNE), which had a press event yesterday with Sir Howard Stringer, CEO of Sony, Robert Thomson, Dow Jones (NYSE: NWS) & Co.‘s EIC, announcing News Corp.‘s exclusive content on Sony e-readers, inexplicably waited a full day to announce other content partners, 19 more, to be exact. Among them, LA Times, Chicago Tribune and FT are now available, in its e-book store. Others such as New York Times, Christian Science Monitor, Denver Post, San Jose Mercury News, New York Review of Books and Barron’s will follow soon. Most of them are also available on rival Amazon (NSDQ: AMZN) Kindle. Some such as Dallas Morning News, the Providence Journal and the New York Observer are not available on the Kindle. Like Kindle, users will be able to buy single editions and monthly subscriptions to these papers.
SEE ALSO: WSJ, MarketWatch and NY Post Subscriptions Coming To Sony E-Reader
Sony has been trying to lure publishers with a better rev share than Amazon, and Thomson hinted yesterday that with WSJ, MarketWatch and NY Post, that was the case.
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