According to teleread blog, Astak launch delayed
http://www.teleread.org/blog/2008/07...ate-september/
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The five-inch Astak E Ink reader, the first of the Mentor series, won’t hit the company’s Web store until late August or maybe late September. The company had been aiming for June, then July.
Retail sales—Astak has been wooing big outlets like Walmart and Costco—are to come later.
Six- and 9.7-inch models with more features are supposed to come out in late August and late November, respectively.
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Price for the basic model is supposed to be less than $249. E-book formats include TXT, PDF, RTF and HTML/CHM. The word from Astaj is that "The Mobipocket format has been delayed for the time being. The problem is in porting the format onto the device. At this point, all new releases will be ported with eReader and .pdf."
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