The official announcement of new devices for reading e-books from Sony: Reader PRS-300 Pocket Edition, and PRS-600 Reader Touch Edition

The company Sony announced the replenishment of its family of devices for reading electronic books with two new models - Sony Reader PRS-300 Pocket Edition, and PRS-600 Reader Touch Edition.


The two new items that use the screens of the electronic paper will be available for sale later this month at a cost of $ 199 for the model of Sony Reader PRS-300 Pocket Edition and $ 299 for the Sony PRS-600 Reader Touch Edition. The main difference from one another is that the older model has the touch panel, more (1 inch) screen (resolution 800x600 pixels, 8 levels of grayscale), slot for Memory Stick PRO Duo and SD memory cards in addition to the standard internal 512 MB, the ability to play MP3 and AAC files, show image files, as well as in the set will be the Oxford English Dictionary. In addition, they will differ and the set of color corps: the Sony Reader PRS-300 it will be dark blue, pink and silver, but the PRS-600 - red, black and silver.

Among the supported formats of electronic books that support the new items, these are the: EPUB, BBeB Book, PDF, plain text, RTF and Word.