In addition, the company has reached an agreement with the New York Post to offer an exclusive version of the New York Post for digital reading devices.
Sony announced in a recent press release a new partnership with Dow Jones & Company for exclusive content from The Wall Street Journal and MarketWatch. If you have it turned off you can download the paper with the Daily Edition anytime by going to "My Account" in the Reader Store. The Washington Times Periodical SubscriptionsĮach newspaper subscription comes with a 14-day free trial and is automatically delivered to the Daily Edition each morning via wireless, provided you have the wireless turned on. Greater internet access down the road, but for now Sony's ebook store is the only connection available through the wireless. And there currently isn't any way to download free public domain ebooks from Google or library ebooks through OverDrive you have to use your computer to download these and then transfer them over with the USB cable.īut by reading some of the technical information on the Daily Edition's information page, they leave the possibility open saying, "You may be charged a fee for wireless connectivityįor your use of other wireless services on your product, such as webīrowsing, should those services be available."Īt least they've left the door open to the possibility of You cannot browse the internet or download ebooks from other websites like with the Amazon Kindle. The downside about the free wireless is that it is only to Sony's Reader Store. Daily Edition Video Review - Part 2 - Online Store Other than that, the browsing through the store goes pretty smoothly, and the ebook download times for me have been under ten seconds the newspaper takes about 20 seconds. I haven't encountered this problem using the Daily Edition in any other instance, just in the store.Ĭonsidering the store has only been up since Christmas, I guess there are still a few bugs to work out.
One thing I noticed about browsing through the store, sometimes if you tap on a selection it darkens but doesn't react you have to tap on it again to get it to work. The are a number of search options and filters for finding ebooks, along with several different categories and quick check links. It takes a little while to load the homepage of the Reader Store, but once it's up a going the pages load fairly quickly.
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