ePaper devices have not really been hyped...which is a bit of a problem...
You need good devices (e.g. e-paper) to attract content publishers and you also need content to make people interested in buying devices.
ebooks never got started because the few devices that could actually handle content well enough did not get "fed" with content.
A company like Sony needs to go ahead and start the ebook hype, if their store can offer beststellers early or at the same time as the harcover comes out and make it cheaper than the actual book...then we're in for a treat.
imagine a world where you just have one device that contains your library...you can save space and money...no more hardcover editions for beststellers you simply have to have as soon as they're out...schoolbooks, newspapers, everything could be beamed to a (fixed or flexible) epaper device.
Many people are afraid of change, and that is a pretty large change...but think about what happened to tapes when the CD came out and what is now happening to VHS cassetes due to the fact that DVD is now becoming more comfortable as a viewing AND recording medium.
The trouble is that there has been no "breakthrough" so far, and if Sony and it's competitors don't start hyping their ebook readers and shops pretty soon the new reader will sink without a ripple just like the Librié.
DRM is a problem too, but iTunes is DRM infested as well and they sell like world-champions...
