Cybook Gen3 e-reader in September 2007 for $350

[ricdiogo]

Originally Posted by Hadrien

If you have any trouble with an interview in french (Bookeen, Nemoptic or Mobipocket), please remember that there's a few french guys on this forum. We can help ;-)

None of them seemed to notice when I pointed that out in a previous post of mine.

[Hadrien]

Originally Posted by ricdiogo

None of them seemed to notice when I pointed that out in a previous post of mine.

Well you can PM or e-mail me for example next time. I don't read 100% of the messages, so I may miss a few.

[Sebastiano]

Originally Posted by JSWolf

Actually, what I'd like to see is a video with up-to-date info now that we know some of the info before is obsolete and there might be new info.

When they will have managed to add reasonable PDF-support, I think they would ad once inform about that, because it is something people seem to constantly ask about.

[Wizard-mag]

Originally Posted by HarryT

That's right, yes, a PDF interpreter does vector graphics.

Most (perhaps most) PDF textbooks, however, use scanned images for their illustrations, not vector graphics.

I think that today, TeX has become almost a standard in electronic typeset involving mathematic symbols, so high quality vector graphics shouldn't constitute a problem with textbooks using some mathematic symbols.

[kleykenb]

Originally Posted by ricdiogo

None of them seemed to notice when I pointed that out in a previous post of mine.

That's because you only read direct replies to your own posts, on 08-05-2007 I translated that part for you. Here it is, again !

In the interview there was a part about PDF , actually PDF size : the Cybook is too small to display A4 PDF comfortably because of its size but it will support PDF.
What they said was that they are planning to release another eReader next year for Business users that will be bigger and therefor will be able to display A4 size PDF's easily unlike all the currently available eReaders.

Many of us are craving for a device that is good for A4 PDF reading so I hope they will release more details about that device soon.
A4 PDF reading people appear to be a niche market, IMHO I think it's a huge niche so it's about time someone came out with a reader like that.
That said, I think Im gonna buy both a Cybook Gen3 and a Cybook Gen3 A4 ;-)

[HarryT]

Originally Posted by kleykenb

Many of us are craving for a device that is good for A4 PDF reading so I hope they will release more details about that device soon.
A4 PDF reading people appear to be a niche market, IMHO I think it's a huge niche so it's about time someone came out with a reader like that.
That said, I think Im gonna buy both a Cybook Gen3 and a Cybook Gen3 A4 ;-)

Most of the cost of an eInk Reader is the screen. Let's suppose that $250 of the price of the CyBook is the screen. The cost of a screen will be proportional to its area, therefore we can assume that, in today's prices, an A4 screen will cost about 6x as much as the current CyBook's screen.

Would you really be willing to pay $1500+ for an A4 CyBook?

[Robert Marquard]

An A4 device has also the problem of being too big. Such devices are for men and real men have a limited choice of bags to carry gadgets.

[tribble]

Maybe the plastic logic displays will offer a better way of A4 formats.

[Hadrien]

Originally Posted by tribble

Maybe the plastic logic displays will offer a better way of A4 formats.

I believe so. A4 for non-flexible screen will be too large. But if we could have an A4 device that could be folded in A5...

[NatCh]

Originally Posted by kleykenb

What they said was that they are planning to release another eReader next year for Business users that will be bigger and therefor will be able to display A4 size PDF's easily unlike all the currently available eReaders.

A4 PDF reading people appear to be a niche market, IMHO I think it's a huge niche so it's about time someone came out with a reader like that.

That is excellent news, kleykenb! I've been on the lookout for such thing for some time.

Originally Posted by HarryT

Would you really be willing to pay $1500+ for an A4 CyBook?

To my mind, we're talking about a business appliance, different pricing rules apply to a professional environment. Think about the original laptops ... or PC's for that matter. They were so stinkin' pricey that the only folks who bought them were businesses. And if they hadn't, then the 'economies of scale' would never have kicked in and driven the prices down so that 'normal' folks could afford them. Which is another point. If businesses started buying e-ink devices in large quantities, we'd probably see a cost drop on the displays relatively quickly.

Originally Posted by Robert Marquard

An A4 device has also the problem of being too big. Such devices are for men and real men have a limited choice of bags to carry gadgets.

But if it's mainly a professional device, then you'll probably have your briefcase/briefcase analog with you when you're carrying this A4 monster about. It ought to fit in there nicely.

[wallcraft]

Originally Posted by NatCh

But if it's mainly a professional device, then you'll probably have your briefcase/briefcase analog with you when you're carrying this A4 monster about.

I don't think Bookeen is implying the display size will be A4. Vizplex is advertising 8" (like ILiad) and 9.7" diagonal displays.

[NatCh]

Fair enough, but I want an A4 display sized device.

[JSWolf]

Originally Posted by wallcraft

I don't think Bookeen is implying the display size will be A4. Vizplex is advertising 8" (like ILiad) and 9.7" diagonal displays.

Any idea on the resolution?

[wallcraft]

9.7" is 1200 x 825 and 8" is 1024 x 768, see E-INK High Resolution Active Matrix Displays. It isn't clear when these will be available, see Anouncement Hanlin V9 (DIN A4 E-Bookreader).

[dwbryant2000]

Has anyone heard anything about actual dates and lead times for purchase in Sept? Also what kind of price for the deluxe version?