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Originally Posted by sdspieg
So what ARE the volumes at which these things DO start to 'make sense' commercially?
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About 100,000 unless it's a market that supports a premium price. See the market that Sony aims their Digital Paper at and the fact it didn't support ebooks (PDF only) and latest version needs a supported Windows version or Mac version (no older versions or Linux) to run the Program to put stuff on/off, no mass storage mode. It's for a narrow well off Corporate niche.
10.3" is about $500 excluding sales tax/VAT
13.6" is about $600 s/h old model and about $800 newer? Was at $1100.
You can treat it as a virtual printer for PDFs (only), so if that works via a USB printer driver it might work on CUPs on Linux/Unix/BSD.
The competing more user configurable models that can work as eBook reader or monitor are up to $1200 and don't work very well as monitors. For example I can't find a single browser or wordprocessor for Windows or Linux that is optimised for eink, i.e. having a page mode for "scrolling" or editing.
I found ONE Android app with eink mode settings.
Without a true page mode instead of the "infinite" scrolling that's been the norm since the 1970s, the eink editing experience would be terrible.