Sunbury Press eBooks now available for the SONY Reader

Mechanicsburg, PA – Sunbury Press, Inc., the trade publisher, has contracted with SONY to distribute eBooks on the SONY Reader platform through the SONY Reader Store.

About the SONY Reader:
The Sony Reader is a line of e-book readers manufactured by Sony, who invented the electronic ink reader with its Librie. It uses an electronic paper display developed by E Ink Corporation, is viewable in direct sunlight, requires no power to maintain a static image, and is usable in portrait or landscape orientation.

Sony sells e-books for the Reader from the Sony eBook Library store in the US, UK, Japan, Germany, Austria, France, Italy, Spain and Canada. The Reader also can display Adobe PDFs, ePub format, RSS newsfeeds, JPEGs, and Sony’s proprietary BBeB (“BroadBand eBook”) format. Some Readers can play MP3 and unencrypted AAC audio files.

Compatibility with Adobe digital rights management (DRM) protected PDF and ePub files allows Sony Reader owners to borrow ebooks from lending libraries in many countries.
The DRM rules of the Reader allow any purchased e-book to be read on up to six devices, at least one of which must be a personal computer running Windows or Mac OS X. Although the owner cannot share purchased eBooks on others’ devices and accounts, the ability to register five Readers to a single account and share books accordingly is a possible workaround.

Please see the Sony Reader Store:
https://ebookstore.sony.com/

For more information about Sunbury Press, please see:
http://www.sunburypress.com/

Sunbury Press eBooks now available through FREADING at major libraries

Mechanicsburg, PA – Sunbury Press, Inc., the trade publisher, has contracted with Library Ideas, LLC for their FReading service to distribute eBooks to thousands of libraries worldwide.

About Library Ideas & FReading:
Library Ideas, LLC is a privately held company located in Fairfax, Virginia.  Library Ideas supplies digital products and websites to libraries of all kinds around the world.  Their signature products are Freading eBooks, Freegal Music and Rocket Languages for Libraries.

The Freading Ebook Service is a download Ebook service sold to Libraries for free use by its registered cardholders. Please check with your local library to see if they have contracted for the service. The service is only available to subscribing libraries and members, and you must enter the Freading Site via the Library URL.

The Freading service offers library patrons unlimited, simultaneous access to the available titles. There’s no access fee for libraries and libraries budget a given amount for access to the collection. Patrons can then download books for a two-week loan, with a two-week renewal if desired. The library is charged for each download as follows up to the limit of the budget:

o 0-6 months after print publication $2 per loan, $.50 per renewal.
o 7-24 months after print publication $1 per loan, no renewal charge.
o More than 25 months after print publication $.50 per loan, no renewal charge.

The fees are invisible to the patron. Libraries can also just pay as they go, receiving a regular monthly statement, to avoid patrons being denied access once a set budget limit has been reached.

Participating libraries include Orange County Public Library System (FL), the Free Library of Philadelphia, Maricopa County Library District, AZ, Los Gatos Public Library (CA), the Westport Public Library (CT), and many more.

Please see the new arrivals at:
http://freading.com/pages/new_arrivals

For more information about Sunbury Press, please see:
http://www.sunburypress.com/