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Until the day I die, or until devices with back-lit screens can solve the problem of glare and the problem of reading in bright sunlight, devices using E Ink will still have at least one paying customer. I guess it depends on your personal habits, but reading books on tablets not for me. For folks who only read at night or have a favorite reading chair safe from the glare from windows and awkwardly placed room lights I'm sure tablets are fine for reading, but for folks like me they're the pits. My favorite reading spot in good weather is our gazebo, and there I can hardly even see what's on my iPad's screen on a sunny day. My other favorite spot is the living room chair by the window. There I can see the iPad's screen, but the glare from the window is a major distraction.
I hope the fortunes for the folks at E Ink do a turn-around, but as others have said, perhaps much of their misfortune has been due to their lack of developing new technologies. Where are the color E Ink screens that have been in development for years?
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