Not Another E-Book (NAEB) HAS its bank accounts!!!

[ggendel]

And it's my understanding that the Baen and Bookeen units are identical. Just some minor differences in the packaging.

Originally, the Baen unit was suppose to be different, but Bookeen made the unit close enough to the Baen specifications that it didn't pay to do something different. I believe that this is a good thing as long as Bookeen puts together an SDK to allow us to add to the Gen3 capabilities as needed.

Originally Posted by rlauzon

My understanding was that we were getting the Gen3 hardware, but with different firmware which supports more open formats.

[igorsk]

Once again, it's NAEB, not Baen

[delphidb96]

Originally Posted by rlauzon

My understanding was that we were getting the Gen3 hardware, but with different firmware which supports more open formats.

Baen isn't selling one. NAEB is! (We tried and tried to get a name that we could all agree on which created the acronym 'NEAB', but we couldn't. So we went with NAEB which is an acronym of (N)ot (A)nother (E)-(B)ook... Yeah, it *is* another ebook reader, but hey, it fit the acronym!)

And we were, but we couldn't get the deal put together because PVI just wasn't interested in any deal which didn't involve either massive numbers of displays sold - pre-paid - or per-unit costs which would have made making our own run to a 'discount' price of around $550-$600 each. And that would have just gotten us to the point of offering the hardware. We'd still have had to complete development of the application software.

Don't get me wrong, I'd love to be able to have *NAEB* (Not Baen. ) create it's own eInk-based ebook reader. Perhaps one with a full-color display, foldable/rollable out to 8"-9", but don't expect such any time soon.

Derek

[slayda]

Originally Posted by delphidb96

Don't get me wrong, I'd love to be able to have *NAEB* (Not Baen. ) create it's own eInk-based ebook reader. Perhaps one with a full-color display, foldable/rollable out to 8"-9", but don't expect such any time soon.

Derek

delphidb96, keep the dream alive. Maybe one day ...

I've decided what I want as an ebook reader is a version of my Palm TX but with a screen that can extend to at least the size of my Sony Reader, has the battery life of the reader but the color touch screen quickness of screen changing of the TX.