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Originally Posted by Walk Broad
I think this is pretty good news all the way around.
Choice of formats? Now there's a novel idea.
Now, if only Robert would let us know if these things will actually ship as indicated for the 5-inch, I'll hold off my purchase until then.
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Dear Walk Broad:
I hope you can begin to imagine that my days are about 11 hours and the new eBook Readers from Astak are about 40% of my time. Trying to get the best features for the consumer AND the best price AND the most free books takes endless conference calls. NOTHING is ever simple about even simple matters.
So... we are always up in the air on everything. Right now we are trying to add Adobe's new Digital Edition .pdf and get that right while working on a deal with Harper Collins.
The latest projected times for the launch are:
July for 5 inch
August for 6 inch
October for 9.7 inch
However, the latest input from the factory is pricing may be under projections. Don't go to the bank just yet... but things are looking good.
Trying to add all of the features that people from this forum have stated means changes in hardware and that takes time. Numerous major retailers are now also working with us and they want test runs and some want a piece of the action on the book sales. We know that we will only get ONE chance to do this right... so it is not as simple as build them and then sell them. There seem to be endless discussions that have to be made and we have the BEA show to do this weekend. So... June slipped to July on the 5 inch launch. I don't like it; but nobody wants a slightly flawed product with loose ends. I have to get things right before we launch.
In answer to other MobilerRead Forum questions... we DID unveil the new Mentor line at IDPF in New York. The new models were in and the changes are startling to see. The 5 inch will come in white, metallic grey, and gunmetal blue (my favorite). YES, they have been seen and yes, they generated all these conference calls with format companies and huge publishers. They ARE for REAL!! They have been seen but no newspaper or magazine companies did an article and even MobileRead Forum, which wanted to interview us, never showed up. So... you have not heard much yet. I am hereby ASKING MobileRead Forum to contact me so you have the right info for your readers. You have my cell phone, MobileRead. Let's meet at BEA in person!!
Robert B.