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Originally Posted by Wizard-mag
If this is true, it will be a true heaven. The device by it's parameters is almost exactly what I am looking for.
However, I would doubt the planned sales figure, because the target segment of the market is very unclear - particularly for the A4 version. They are definitely not aiming it at e-books since (in my opinion) majority of the readers would consider it too big for that purpose.
Then, as it was said previously, they could aim more at the business customers. But since I think the core selling point of this device is still going to be EInk display, which for most of the business people probably won't be a killer, that also does not quite add up to me.
Finally, I can think of the academic sector and students generally, which looks suitable to me, but the question here transforms to whether there is so much money to be made in this sector.
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There's a
lot of money bouncing around college campuses these days, iPods, laptops, PSPs, etc.
Don't forget the professors themselves -- my wife's finishing her PhD in English Lit. and she'd love to be able to accept papers, mark them up, and then return them -- all electronically. Among other things it'd allow her to keep copies of the papers along with her notes, should there ever be a question about anything.
Then there's the segment most folks seem to forget: Lawyers. They've got the bucks (and there are certainly enough of them out there), they handle absolutely
enormous numbers of documents, most of which (according to a lawyer friend of mine) come to them over e-mail as PDF files in the first place. They don't need to keep most of them apparently, but they do have to read them -- they'd probably save the price of such a device in printing costs alone in a week or so.