Now that we've had a look at CommanderROR's
preliminary review of the StareEBook hardware, and we know that it's supposed to be the same hardware as what the Baen/NAEB folks are negotiating for, it seems to me we know a few things, tentatively, anyway.
CommanderROR said the one big thing he doesn't like about the StarEBook is the limitation to only Star's proprietary format. Since the Baen/NAEB variant allows a fairly broad list of file types, and should be about USD100 lower price, that ought to make it quite attractive by comparison.
Of course we don't really know for
certain that the hardware will be identical (though it seems a reasonable assumption for the moment, so long as we keep in mind that it
is an assumption), and we have no idea whatsoever what the software/apps might be like. So those are still a couple of outstanding question marks on the device.