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Originally Posted by rkomar
How big is the textbook industry? If you can't properly show equations on E-Ink devices, then they are never going to be satisfactory for reading textbooks.
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Who says the textbook reading devices *have* to be the same as the cheapie paperback-class consumer readers?
Sony's upcoming big reader would be a better fit than any 6in reader because a proper academic reader needs robust annotation and note-taking, preferably supporting ink as a data type. Every attempt at using eink readers for academic ebooks has so far found them inadequate.
For that matter, who says a proper academic ebook format needs to be grafted onto a commercial trade ebook format to succeed?
A separate academic format optimized for annotation and a reader app with note management features makes more sense.
Trying to cram together two inherently different products makes as much sense as this:
http://www.nbc.com/saturday-night-li...oor-wax/n8625/