Wow, that's original. It looks like a crappy knockoff of the mini-kindle in which the keyboard has been replaced by one giant button (so I guess you won't be able to make any notes or search for books, unless it's got a touch screen, but then why all the blank space at the bottom instead of a bigger screen!?)

Why don't companies ever learn that the money doesn't come from playing catch up? It's like all the companies trying to compete with the iPhone by selling slightly cheaper iPhone knockoffs and trying to replicate most of their features.

If you're going to create a product, make SOMETHING unique about it!!

A clarification: Apple is not setting the prices in iBookstore; the publishers are setting the prices, and Apple is taking a 30% cut of that. Your story makes it sound as though Apple set the prices.

Seems like a bad idea for a gadget to be so obviously for right handed people. I'm a righty, but damn, I wouldn't want to exclude 7-10% of people right off the bat. (pun intended...)