Sony’s e-book reader is about to get help in battle with Kindle

When it comes to e-book reader’s, Kindle seems to be winning the battle but Sony (SNE) will not let Kindle get its own way and have enlisted the help of Jane Austen. On Wednesday, Sony announced a partnership with Google (GOOG); this will bring half-million classic books to the Sony Reader Digital Book.

Google have been scanning books for years and then converting them to the digital format, part of this was for its Google Book Search project. Google will be providing books to Sony whose copyrights have expired, this means that the Sony Reader new addition books would have been published before 1923.

Some of those titles include A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court, Sense and Sensibility, and The Awakening. There are a number of common titles as well such as Letters of Jane Austen. This new deal with Google will now mean that the Sony Reader’s library will have over 600,000 titles, Amazon’s (AMZN) Kindle library is only around the 250,000 region.

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