It should now be hard to make the statement that you have a Sony Reader and cannot find anything to read because Google has now made more than one million titles available for the Sony Reader. The newly available books, which are all public domain titles are coming courtesy of Google Books in the EPUB more »

With all the news surrounding the Kindle 2 it’s easy to forget that there are other eBook readers out there. Well, Sony isn’t letting us forget that they have a reader out there as well. Actually, they have two, one which actually has a touch-screen, both of which now have a vastly expanded library thanks to Google Books.

Sony has teamed up with Google to bring 500,000 public domain books to the Sony Readers for free. Yeah, so you can get all your favorite Mark Twain, Jane Austen and William Shakespeare among others. While the number sounds impressive, it begs the question of “how many people are actually going to be excited about this?” Sure there’s college professors, or Literature students who study books from before the turn of the 20th century. There might not be a huge amount of others that are really dying to read these older books on their Sony Reader. Although, I wouldn’t mind getting a shot to actually read “The Divine Comedy” or “Beowulf” finally.