Sony to Re-launch eBook Store This Week

Sony's eBook Store will be relaunched Friday, Dec. 11 as the Reader™ Store, available at a new address, readerstore.sony.com, according to an e-mail to its customers.

Sony will now offer its entire inventory of e-books in the EPUB format. EPUB is an open eBook format. Any new purchases or re-downloads of previously purchased titles will now be available only in EPUB.

Also available Friday will be Reader™ Library software version 3.1 for the PC and Macintosh. The new Reader Library 3.1 software, will allow users to take advantage of EPUB content on the Reader™ Store.