Sony has been in the portable ebook reader market since 2004 with their Sony LIBRI© which was discontinued in 2005. The LIBRI© was a Japanese language version only but computer savvy people have managed to convert the interface to English using certain files found online and uploading them through a USB cable to the device.
The Sony eBook Reader Device
However, it was in 2006 that the Sony ebook reader line came out and Sony managed to dominate the international ebook reader market (well, at least until the Kindle arrived.) There have been 9 Sony Readers since 2006; the first ones were the PRS models, which stand for Portable Reader System, and they were the Sony PRS-500, Sony PRS-505, Sony PRS-700, Sony PRS-300, Sony PRS-600, and…
