Sony UK has rolled out an e-book shop it hopes will tempt buyers away from Amazon and Apple's iTunes, the company said today.

The Reader Store UK - to give it its official moniker - offers the usual array books and bookshop features, plus a couple of daily papers: the Mail and the Guardian.

It's already tuned to the latest incarnation of Sony's Reader line of e-book viewers, and the Reader Store website has free downloads for Mac and Windows reader apps [1].

There's also an Android version over at Google Play [2], but it doesn't score very highly in the user feedback stakes. ®

Links

1. http://lu.ebookstore.sony.com/DownloadSoft.do
2. https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.sony.drbd.mobile.reader&feature=search_result#?t=W251bGwsMSwxLDEsImNvbS5zb255LmRyYmQubW9iaWxlLnJlYWRlciJd

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