The eBook Reader Blog

Sony has had refurbished PRS-350′s available for a long time. The problem is that they’ve been selling them for $153—seriously, who’s going to pay more for a refurbished PRS-350 than a brand new PRS-T1. Finally, Sony put a reasonable price on the PRS-350. It is now $84.99 from Sony.com. They still list the price as [...]

With the announcement of two new touchscreen ebook readers this week, the New Nook and Kobo Touch, Borders is now selling the touchscreen-equipped Sony PRS-350 online for $109, a full $70 off the regular price. The Sony Pocket has hit $119 a few different times, but it has never been priced this low. What’s strange [...]

Yesterday Sony added the Daily Edition and Pocket Edition ebook readers to their refurbished products section, the 6″ PRS-650 Touch Edition is missing, however, and once again is out of stock, as it always seems to be. The Daily Edition is selling for $239 refurbished, $60 less than the regular price (don’t pay attention to [...]

Sony issued a firmware update this past week for the Sony PRS-650 and PRS-350 ebook readers. To update, all you need to do is plug your ereader into your computer with the USB cable and then open Sony’s Reader Library software if it doesn’t automatically launch when you plug the device in.

If you’ve tried to get your hands on a new Sony PRS-650 recently you probably know that they are very hard to find these days. Most retail stores don’t have them in stock, most online retailers that sell Sony Readers only sell the PRS-350 and sometimes the PRS-950, but the PRS-650 has been hard to [...]

The 5″ Sony PRS-350 is on sale at Sony Style, Amazon, and other Sony retailers for $129, and is even down to $119 at Buy.com. If you have a trade-in voucher now would be a good time to use it. Normally it’s a hard decision between the PRS-350 and the larger memory card-equipped PRS-650, but [...]

This post is updated daily to list all the ebook reader sales through the 2010 holiday season, including Black Friday and Cyber Monday deals and any other promotion retailers can think up between now and the end of December that involves ereaders. I’ve added this page toward the top of the main navigation list on [...]

In an odd marketing twist that appears to be a big middle finger to those of us who bought a new Sony Touch or Sony Pocket when they were first released, there are suddenly a couple of really good deals on the Sony PRS-650 and PRS-350. First, some of Sony’s retailers like B&H Photo and [...]

This post is a list of shortcuts for the Sony PRS 650 Touch Edition and PRS 350 Pocket Edition, along with some helpful tips and tricks. Here are links to some earlier Sony Reader posts that you may find useful as well: How to get free news feeds for a Sony Reader with Calibre’s news [...]

For the remainder of National Breast Cancer Awareness Month, Sony is offering a Pink Ribbon Bundle Pocket Edition for $179.99, the same price as the regular non-bundle Pocket Reader. The bundle package comes with a Pink PRS-350, a limited edition Pink Ribbon cover, and a coupon code for two ebook downloads from the Sony eBook [...]