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I don't think anyone needs to worry about IREX totally disappearing. If they can't pull through the economic difficulties they would no doubt be bought by a large electronics company.
They have valuable research, patents, trademarks, hardware and excellent staff; this will not be allowed to just scatter to the winds it things come to the worst.
There is a lot of speculation that eReaders are the next big thing, like mobile phones taking over from landlines, the revolution of microwaves in cooking or internet to shopping.
It's not yet happened to society at large in the area of paper books to eBooks. But it will....
And there will be companies who want a foot in before the revolution has really taken of. Buying an existing company lets them achieve that.
I can think of a number of large hardware manufacturers who do not currently make an eReader, but who would probably like to establish themselves before eReaders become mass market items.
So best outcome: Irex continues to operates in its current form
2nd best; they get bought by Nokia, Samsung, Toshiba, Lenovo, Dell etc...... or an investment consortium.
Anything else is very unlikely.
I am not sure where we'd be on support for our existing devices though.
But the 10 June release was hugely re-assuring.
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