Six months After the translation buyers Reader Store on the platform Kobo Sony said that it stops the development and manufacture their own devices for reading e-books Sony Reader. Parting with the Sony Reader is a landmark event. Exactly Sony has created a market BookReader, released in 2004 on sale 1st in the history of reader Sony Librie. The technology of e-ink Sony and Toppan Printing Co took several years. This technology was later used in the Sony Reader, Kindle, Nook, and other readers. Sony also was the first to use the ePub format and was the first firm to be connected based on the E-ink screen with touchscreen and backlight. As emphasized by the editor of the Internet representation of the Digital Reader Nate Holfelder (Nate Hoffelder), the office of the Sony design was often ahead of the competition: " Even 4 years After its premiere PRS-950 looks better than fifty percent of today's readers ". However, As underlined by the Digital Reader, despite all the innovation, Sony made some " stupid mistakes ". These site attributes ziscosteel appearance of the Sony Reader Store, awkward interface software applications Sony that Sony for a very long time did not add to the budget model built-in store e-books. The downside was too high and the cost of the devices: " After the price war between Nook and Kindle in June 2010 fate [Sony Reader] was a foregone conclusion ". Sony Reader will join other units, which were the first in their own way, but failed to survive the fierce competition: For example - Entourage, Pandigital or FoxIT. The only " heir " of the Sony readers will be the exclusive 13-inch device DPT-S1 with a flexible screen, worth more than $1000 and can only view PDF documents. This reader will be available only on the Japanese Islands.