This is aimed at institutions, hospitals. I work for a major cancer research hospital which has been trying for a long time to electronicize their medical records (part of the problem is that some of the docs can't agree on what forms they ought to use). If they could get the plan together, something like this would be worth it's weight for actual implementation hardware -- assuming that it does what it says it does. From that perspective, the high price is actually
reassuring, believe it or not. If they're charging $4k apiece for them, it says they'll stand behind them big time, and it suggests they'll have the resources to do so. Which in turn, means it's more likely that it
will actually do what it's supposed to do.
Yeah, it's way too much for a reader, but it's about right for a high-end medical instrument, which is what this is claiming to be. It might or might not read e-books too, but that's not what it's meant to do, just like my new Pentium Duo isn't
really intended
solely to allow me to play minesweeper (but don't tell my wife that!).
