Here we go... with another specialized device, eBooks. This time to read books. Well it's not new, I know, but now it is getting more and more popular. And I must admit that the eInk kit is like to read a piece of paper (most eBooks are based on this kit).

Amazon launched Kindle time ago, but expensive and close, I mean, they want you only to buy books in their store. That time Sony decided to try PRS-505, a similar device but open and cheaper, just because they wanted to be in but not deep in. That is, they allowed you to connect the device to a PC through USB and load it with tons of PDFs.

But people like to have the power, so the Sony experience has more appeal than the Amazon one. That's why Kindle has no the expected success.

Sony has realized that there is an important market, so they have increased the product line with a wide range of new eBooks. The bad news are that they also have included a set of services and rules oriented to close the device, towards Amazon intentions. They will offer an online book store, they will arrange agrements with libraries (not for free to user, I guess) and furthermore they will use a new "open" format called ePub, instead of well known and extended PDF, html or txt formats.