diff --git a/src/calibre/customize/builtins.py b/src/calibre/customize/builtins.py
index 2d6b84634b..cced3b194f 100644
--- a/src/calibre/customize/builtins.py
+++ b/src/calibre/customize/builtins.py
@@ -1177,6 +1177,16 @@ class StoreAmazonKindleStore(StoreBase):
     formats = ['KINDLE']
     affiliate = True
 
+class StoreSonyStore(StoreBase):
+    name = 'SONY Reader Store'
+    description = u'SONY Reader books.'
+    author = 'Kovid Goyal'
+    actual_plugin = 'calibre.gui2.store.stores.sony_plugin:SonyStore'
+
+    headquarters = 'US'
+    formats = ['SONY']
+    affiliate = False
+
 class StoreAmazonDEKindleStore(StoreBase):
     name = 'Amazon DE Kindle'
     author = 'Charles Haley'
@@ -1623,7 +1633,7 @@ plugins += [
     StoreAmazonITKindleStore,
     StoreAmazonUKKindleStore,
     StoreBaenWebScriptionStore,
-    StoreBNStore,
+    StoreBNStore, StoreSonyStore,
     StoreBeamEBooksDEStore,
     StoreBeWriteStore,
     StoreBiblioStore,
diff --git a/src/calibre/gui2/store/search/search.py b/src/calibre/gui2/store/search/search.py
index e4b5c4c2bb..adde77cce1 100644
--- a/src/calibre/gui2/store/search/search.py
+++ b/src/calibre/gui2/store/search/search.py
@@ -388,3 +388,14 @@ class SearchDialog(QDialog, Ui_Dialog):
             self.do_search()
         return QDialog.exec_(self)
 
+if __name__ == '__main__':
+    from calibre.gui2 import Application
+    from calibre.gui2.preferences.main import init_gui
+    import sys
+    app = Application([])
+    app
+    gui = init_gui()
+
+    s = SearchDialog(gui, query=' '.join(sys.argv[1:]))
+    s.exec_()
+
diff --git a/src/calibre/gui2/store/stores/sony_plugin.py b/src/calibre/gui2/store/stores/sony_plugin.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..4e12f54ee4
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/calibre/gui2/store/stores/sony_plugin.py
@@ -0,0 +1,88 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env python
+# vim:fileencoding=UTF-8:ts=4:sw=4:sta:et:sts=4:fdm=marker:ai
+from __future__ import (unicode_literals, division, absolute_import,
+                        print_function)
+
+__license__   = 'GPL v3'
+__copyright__ = '2012, Kovid Goyal <kovid at kovidgoyal.net>'
+__docformat__ = 'restructuredtext en'
+
+import urllib
+from contextlib import closing
+
+from lxml import html, etree
+
+from PyQt4.Qt import QUrl
+
+from calibre import browser, url_slash_cleaner
+from calibre.gui2 import open_url
+from calibre.gui2.store import StorePlugin
+from calibre.gui2.store.basic_config import BasicStoreConfig
+from calibre.gui2.store.search_result import SearchResult
+from calibre.gui2.store.web_store_dialog import WebStoreDialog
+
+class SonyStore(BasicStoreConfig, StorePlugin):
+
+    def open(self, parent=None, detail_item=None, external=False):
+        if detail_item:
+            if external or self.config.get('open_external', False):
+                open_url(QUrl(url_slash_cleaner(detail_item)))
+            else:
+                d = WebStoreDialog(self.gui, 'http://ebookstore.sony.com', parent, detail_item)
+                d.setWindowTitle(self.name)
+                d.set_tags(self.config.get('tags', ''))
+                d.exec_()
+
+    def search(self, query, max_results=10, timeout=60):
+        url = 'http://ebookstore.sony.com/search?keyword=%s'%urllib.quote_plus(
+                query)
+
+        br = browser()
+
+        counter = max_results
+        with closing(br.open(url, timeout=timeout)) as f:
+            doc = html.fromstring(f.read())
+            for item in doc.xpath('//div[contains(@class, "searchResult")]/'
+                    'descendant::li[contains(@class, "hreview")]'):
+                if counter <= 0:
+                    break
+
+                curr = ''.join(item.xpath('descendant::div[@class="pricing"]/descendant::*[@class="currency"]/@title')).strip()
+                if not curr:
+                    curr = 'USD'
+                amt = ''.join(item.xpath('descendant::div[@class="pricing"]/descendant::*[@class="amount"]/text()')).strip()
+                if not amt:
+                    amt = '0'
+                s = SearchResult()
+                s.price = curr+' '+amt
+                title = item.xpath('descendant::h3[@class="item"]')
+                if not title: continue
+                title = etree.tostring(title[0], method='text',
+                        encoding=unicode)
+                if not title: continue
+                s.title = title.strip()
+                s.author = ''.join(item.xpath(
+                        'descendant::li[contains(@class, "author")]/'
+                        'a[@class="fn"]/text()')).strip()
+                if not s.author: continue
+                detail_url = ''.join(item.xpath('descendant::h3[@class="item"]'
+                    '/descendant::a[@class="fn" and @href]/@href'))
+                if not detail_url: continue
+                s.detail_item = detail_url
+
+                counter -= 1
+
+                cover_url = ''.join(item.xpath(
+                    'descendant::li[@class="coverart"]/'
+                    'descendant::img[@src]/@src'))
+                if cover_url:
+                    if cover_url.startswith('//'):
+                        cover_url = 'http:' + cover_url
+                    elif cover_url.startswith('/'):
+                        cover_url = 'http://ebookstore.sony.com'+cover_url
+                    s.cover_url = url_slash_cleaner(cover_url)
+
+                s.drm = SearchResult.DRM_UNKNOWN
+                s.formats = 'Sony'
+
+                yield s