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jackau · 09-07-2009, 07:27 AM

With big taiwan panel makers taking over the likes of E-ink, the dozens of brands and ODMs are eyeing ebook as their next money maker for the next three years.

We can assume when the likes of LCD display ODM AUO gear their production lines on Ebook screen, bigger and cheaper Ebooks will be just a year or two away.

estimate by 2011, 7 inch screen products dominates market at low end and 9 inch is aiming for main stream. 11 inch / a4 size are top end. Low end start from 75 (5 to 6 inch) to 150 USD, and top of the line asking for 300 + USD.

Then around 2013. Colour (16 bit?) screen Ebooks will take off as high end. What is still unknown was whether the nontech heavy mainstream would paid 200+ USD for a coloured 9 to 10 inch Ebook reader.

We expect to see odd ones such as Netbook + Ebook offerings, namely the one seen released by Asus, or have a large E-book screen attached on the panel cover of light weight notebooks / netbooks...

At this stage, i do not expect coloured version Ebook to reach the 100 USD mark by 2013since the first coloured reader by Fujitsu was asking for 1000 USD!

09-07-2009, 07:27 AM	#5
jackau Connoisseur Posts: 74 Karma: 454 Join Date: Aug 2009 Location: Downunder Device: Cool-er / Mac Mini / Satio / Notebook	With big taiwan panel makers taking over the likes of E-ink, the dozens of brands and ODMs are eyeing ebook as their next money maker for the next three years. We can assume when the likes of LCD display ODM AUO gear their production lines on Ebook screen, bigger and cheaper Ebooks will be just a year or two away. estimate by 2011, 7 inch screen products dominates market at low end and 9 inch is aiming for main stream. 11 inch / a4 size are top end. Low end start from 75 (5 to 6 inch) to 150 USD, and top of the line asking for 300 + USD. Then around 2013. Colour (16 bit?) screen Ebooks will take off as high end. What is still unknown was whether the nontech heavy mainstream would paid 200+ USD for a coloured 9 to 10 inch Ebook reader. We expect to see odd ones such as Netbook + Ebook offerings, namely the one seen released by Asus, or have a large E-book screen attached on the panel cover of light weight notebooks / netbooks... At this stage, i do not expect coloured version Ebook to reach the 100 USD mark by 2013since the first coloured reader by Fujitsu was asking for 1000 USD!