Sony announced that their Reader has partnered with News Corp. to sell subscriptions to the Wall Street Journal and the New York Post (an exclusive), along with summaries from the WSJ and its Marketwatch service. They say their delayed new Reader Daily Edition “will offer a more intuitive newspaper-reading experience to go with features like a touch screen.” It has not been revealed if Sony is giving newspapers more than the 30 percent share of revenue provided by Amazon, but Rupert Murdoch “indicated that a partnership with Sony would include other favorable terms, like sharing the names of subscribers, which […]
