joey said:
>   Who defines the requirements to meet this particular bet?

rothman is the one who's been making all the promises,
so you'll have to get him to specify the exact conditions.

which, of course, he won't do, because he specializes in
vague.  which, of course, is what he must do since he is
selling snake-oil.  (roll-up screens!  color e-ink!  more!)

but if we must be pedantic for you, joey, i'll specify that
it has to be new (no refurbs) at a widely-available price.

of course, if we want to interpret rothman more liberally,
he implies these cheap e-reader-machines would be sold
"like calculators", in blister-packs at the local drug-store.
(his whole notion was based on price-cuts via large scale.)

as you will see, if you go back and read the original post,
i predicted that such a machine _would_ become available,
at that price, around the time that _lunch_ costs that much.

but rothman would have had people believing that it was
"right around the corner", some 5-10 years ago.  wrong!

-bowerbird