Yesterday, Sony issued a press release regarding their plans to make their line of Sony ebook readers more widely available in Europe and Asia, including Japan, China, and Australia.

Here’s the key information from the press release:

In each country Sony intends to leverage its relationships with local retailers, publishers and distributors to introduce the Reader along with a host of local content to help ensure the best possible reading experience . . .

. . . Today, the Reader is available in eight countries across the world, including the United States, Canada, United Kingdom, France, Germany, Netherlands, Austria and Switzerland. Sony’s Reader Store is currently available for users in the United States and Canada.

Sony will announce general availability, local pricing and pre-order dates for the Reader in Japan, China, Australia, Spain and Italy at a later date.

Unfortunately, there’s still no word on when Sony will make the PRS-900 Daily Edition available to markets outside the US. That should be one of their priorities. Even if they can’t get wireless providers on-board with the 3G, they should at least make a Wi-Fi model an option.

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At the end of last year, Sony announced that they'd be offering some exclusive content in their reader store through a partnership with Dow Jones & Company for The Wall Street Journal and MarketWatch.

And now, on April 29th, Sony announced in a press release another Sony Reader Store exclusive with The Days of our Lives ebook, which sells for $13.99.

About the book:

The Days of our Lives is the first insider account of the history behind one of our most beloved soap operas. It is about the family who believed in it, conceived it, and sometimes seemed to live it along with millions of viewers, as they struggled to emerge from nowhere to create and produce one of the most successful and enduring television shows in history.

Ken Corday reveals the triumphs and tragedies behind the scenes over the years, a moving personal story of a family facing everything from death to mental illness, the ever-looming threat of cancellation, and the struggle to keep their dream alive. It is also the story of an extended familyactors, producers, and crewwho formed a bond of love that went beyond just creating a show to establishing a legacy.

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