Sony Reader Digital eBook Store gets 500,000 Public Domain Books from Google

Sony's eBook Store has added a half-million public domain books from Google to its offering, which now totals 600,000 ebooks for the Sony PRS-505 ($300) and PRS-700 ($350) Reader Digital Book users. Traditional titles include “The Awakening,” “A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court,” “Black Beauty,” as well as The Letters of Jane Austen “Sense and Sensibility” and “Emma.” Titles in French, German, Italian, Spanish and other languages are also available at the ebook store where customers can search or browse by subject, author, or featured titles.

At Sony’s eBook store, a button on the front page leads to the books from Google, which people can transfer to their PRS-505 or PRS-700 Reader at no cost. The process is seamless for Reader owners who have an account at the store. Those new to the store will need to set up an account and download Sony’s free eBook Library software. To start, people can access more than a half-million public domain books from Google, boosting the available titles from the eBook Store to more than 600,000.