cripes, the people here spend all day long bantering about everything eink and ereader and can't put two and two together here? This rumored new student kindle corresponds with one of two displays. It is either the pixel qi display or more likely the Plastic Logic display which according to everything I have read is going to be very aggressively priced to make such a device within the reach of your average student. And if Amazon does not jump in feet first they will lose out to a company which is willing. The deals for the text books are already done if the device is due by years end or even early in '10.
The dark horse is the Pixel Qi display because it's pretty energy efficient and it is to be had in color immediately in it's first, well actually 2nd generation.
I mean this is not rocket science, the writing has been on the wall here for over a year.
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