Found some news on the Cybook today. According to the German e-book seller eBookMedia (http://www.ebookmedia.de/), a "Preview" of the Cybook will be available for 720 Euro (~850 USD). I am not sure if you are ready to pay that amount of money for a non-final product, especially if there is no upgrade possibility mentioned.

The Final would be available June 1st, 2004, according to their website.

Some specs (http://www.ebookmedia.de/Cybook.zip) are available in German.

The Cybook runs Windows CE 3.0.

The following formats are supported:

Mobipocket Reader (with DRM)
uBook (Microbook)
Boo Reader
PDF Reader
Internet Explorer
Pocket Word Reader
PTab Reader


A Compact Flash memory is supported for storing e-books.

It worries me a little bit that the website of the makes of Cybook, French-based Cytale (http://www.cytale.com/), is not any longer available.