Hi all,
I received a helpful email today from the folks at NAEB which gave me an update on the status of their orders with Bookeen.
"We are currently at 84 units sold. However Bookeen is working with us and we will be getting in a shipment of 100 units at the end of January."
So evidently, they worked out an arrangement with Bookeen to just place an order for 100 readers instead of 1000, for this first time at least. Probably because it's taking NAEB much longer than they thought to get up to 1000 orders. (My guess is that the PayPal and credit card ordering process problems have put a kink in their projections).
I hope this helps!
Best Regards,
Eric