In a word or two - no date as yet.

It is a bit unfortunate that the T1 and the Reader Store didn't "conjoin" so to speak, but I suppose it's the usual negotiating with 5,000 publishers, authors, formats, geographical regions........and on and on..

However, you can still download books on the move - just not from the Reader Store, 'cos it ain't there yet.

Get your Adobe ID, and do the Reader register, and you can buy wifi-ly from Waterstones, Smiths/Kobo., the usual suspects.

I can do it, so, honestly, anyone can !

And should you still want to use your PC laptop, you could try Calibre, a very good management system.

Also, if you aren't aware of it, join up to MobileRead Forums, a brilliant global site with loads of tips, advice , make specific sections, offers, resources, UK Public Libraries that have Digital resources, and the MobileRead free library (only they are yours to keep) with excellent formatting versions,  the list is pretty much endless.

Hope this helps.

I bought the PRS-T1 reader pretty much as soon as it came out having been given the impression the Reader Store would follow shortly after.  Some 4 months or so later I'm still waiting.  Could I ever imagine Apple doing this, would Amazon do this?  No, they're switched on to providing the customer with a full service straight out the box.  Sony need to wake up!

I chose the PRS-T1 to replace my Sony reader PRS-650 because I wanted to get wi-fi access but keep the touch screen feature, have an SD card slot, and the freedom to download books and documents having variable file types.

After being pretty patient I finally gave up last week.  I downloaded the Android hack software, installed the Kindle App and now use Amazon's book store for any purchases I need.  Using this approach I still have the touch screen, I still have the SD card, the Sony build quality etc, I can still use multiple files but I now buy some of my books from Amazon.  Would have preferred to buy from Sony rather than give business elsewhere, but because Sony couldn't be bothered getting their act together I found a work-around.

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A great product, though overpriced in UK, let down by this fiasco. I shall think twice before purchasing another Sony product.

I shouldn't bother - I think he probably knows already, don't you ? If he's any good that is.... Especially with the constantly upcoming "Potter" lark.

But the truth of the matter probably is, the UK market made a Store uneconomical in the past.

It's not just a question of "opening a store" is it ?

Each geographical area has separate publishers/authors contracts to negotiate and sort generally, and the scale of the market a few years ago probably wasn't that attractive even to the publishers, let alone the monolith that is Sony.

And, when all is said and done, to be honest, it will only be another online bookshop, with basically the same goods as a lot of other outlets.. And I bought Sony 'cos I liked the device - there are innumerable places to get books from, many of them free.

But... if the Store eventually opens, it may be very much easier to buy there, and perhaps it will be with a blaze of special offers etc... You never know.....

I'm astonished that anyone likes the Kobo store.  If you want to buy 5 or 10 books on the same day, each one has to be processed as a separate transaction as they haven't yet implemented the 'shopping basket'!  My credit card was blocked as a result.  On top of that, one of the books that I purchased didn't download as, in their words, "the ePub for this eBook seems to be missing".  Despite this, they have refused to refund my credit card.  I sincerely hope that the Sony store is substantially better or I will be following others and converting to Kindle.

For anyone at Kobo who reads this - take a good long look at the Amazon website and Amazon's and John Lewis's levels of customer service if you expect to stay in business for the long term.

Zumba - but they have made great hardware - and don't ask me why the decision was taking at some level of the organisation very early on not to extend the existing ReaderStore into the UK .

Perhaps they looked around at what was already in the market , apart from Amazon, with DRM, and decide, at that time, there was no need.

But the Potter angle has definitely given them an impetus to get one up and running now.

Let's hope they've got some good engineers in ......

And I'm fairly unimpressed with Kobo too, as I wasn't with WHS also  - and there are so many interesting, efficient sources already available.

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See other thread..........