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Don't get me wrong, I 'get' the selling points for the DX. I just don't think they're strong enough to justify the price.
With the best will in the world a 9.7" screen is not a comfortable size for standard pdf documents (assuming your company uses PDF and not word etc) - it's half letter size and by all accounts has trouble displaying documents properly. So if your business deals in sufficient quantities of documents to justify an e-reader, you're going to have to trawl through them in a squished, awkward format. The Iliad never quite took off for much the same reason. Don't underestimate the 'functionality' of a sheaf of printed paper that can be annotated, navigated, highlighted, bookmarked, filed and shared with consummate ease.
I appreciate that the other devices I've compared it to don't offer the exact features of the DX, but they cost the same and for that price offer a wide range of features and functions against the DX's much more limited repertoire. I think that, for the price people will expect a wider feature set - web browsing, video, messaging, applications and so on.
If you accept that the DX is a single function gadget that's not quite good enough to display business documents (I'm sure some will disagree - this is after all just an opinion), then consider that you can read most current e-books just as well on 6" e-readers, why would you want to pay $500 when you could get the Kindle 2 for $150 less, or the Sony for $300 less?
The reviews seem to back me up a bit on this - after the Kindle 2, the DX comes across as a bit of a disappointment.
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