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Sony announced a price cut on their Reader Wi-Fi e-reader: $129.99 down from $149.99. They also offer a $50 off the price if you trade in your old e-reader. 

The Reader Wi-Fi (or PRS-T1) has a 6" 600 x 800 E Ink Pearl display with a Clear Touch Infrared technology (supporting multitouch and a stylus). Other feaures include 1.3GB of internal storage and a microSD slot and Wi-Fi. It supports ePub books and contains library lending software.

Update: The PRS-T1 (or Reader Wi-Fi) is now official!

A dutch retailer web paged uploaded photo and specs of Sony's upcoming PRS-T1 e-reader. According to the page, it has a 6" 800x600 dual-touch E Ink display, Wikipedia and google search. It weights just 168g.

The site also lists it for €165 - which is about $240. Obviously we'll have to wait and see on that one...

A new digital e-reader from Sony just passed through the US FCC - it's called PRS-T1 and it's got Wi-Fi. Yes, that's all that we know currently. It's been rumored before that Sony is set to release new e-readers in August, so this may be the first/only one. We're guessing that this will be a budget e-reader, with no 3G and with a touch E Ink display. Hopefully we won't have to wait for long.

Sony's current crop of e-readers (the daily, touch and pocket editions) are now out of stock over at Sony's own store...

There are reports that Sony is about to release a new range of e-readers in August. Reportedly these will offer wi-fi only and not 3G - as Sony needs to lower the price of their e-readers to compete with budget offerings from Amazon, B&N and Kobo.

Sony says that their e-readers are selling great in Japan - and in fact the Touch Edition (6") has almost been sold out. Sony has enough stock of the Pocket Edition (5") reader. In the US, The Touch Edition costs $229 and the Pocket Edition costs $179.