According to a report this morning on MCV, Sony are planning to spend some of their E3 press conference discussing a upcoming service called Storyteller, an eBook and interactive document system for both PS3 and PS Vita.
The service will appear on the PSN Store alongside Games and Movies, and will place Sony’s platforms in direct competition with the likes of Amazon’s Kindle and Apple’s iPad, both of which have hardware far more suited to the format.
SCEE declined to comment on the story.
Tomhlord
Makes sense on the Vita, would like to see it. If you can read books on iOS & Android phones, why not the Vita? Sure, a Kindle and iPad may well be “better suited” but it’s a very fair comparison to a phone and gives extra impetus to take your Vita with you.
KeRaSh
Phones are usually held vertically which offers an aspect ratio closer to books. It’d be pretty awkward to hold the Vita sideways and reading on it horizontally is still anything but ideal.
Tomhlord
Maybe. But if you hold the Vita in the same way you would to play a game and use the sticks to scroll that would be quite nice and ergonomic.
Jakster123x
Hmm, i agree with everyone else – Vita is the main device for this.
jesta
We all know what will appear on there… Since Sony have the partnership with J.K Rowling for Pottermore they will no doubt use it as a platform for her ebooks.
TSBonyman
An app to read general documents would be neat, hopefully it’s not limited to proprietary documents.
Sympozium
…Yeah but Isn’t that meant for pc’s or tablets, don’t see why anyone would read docs on a “Gaming” Console.
TSBonyman
When i homebrewed my original psp i had a document reader – this was before i had an ipod and i found it quite handy. Vita already has some non-gaming apps and i’m expecting a lot more when PSS launches.
colmshan1990
Good idea for the Vita, although I’d prefer a Kindle app to be honest.
I’ve already got a fair few Kindle books, I don’t want to split my ebook collection if I can avoid it.
mrfodder
Still waiting for the movie store in Ireland. Got burned on the comic store, so will be giving this a miss.
The Lone Steven
It’s a good idea except for one major problem, it’s on the PS3! I doubt that many people want to read a book on their TV as chances are most people read ebooks on the way to work or on a journey etc.. Plus i can see a lot of problems with having a ebook on the telly. Such as the font is too small etc..
Foxhound_Solid
TV Reader….pass…Vita…definitely.