walter said:

Basically you are going to hit the point that it becomes feasible to start producing them in larger quantities which in itself will cause a price drop.

that's the same kind of "logic" that rothman has been using. except the process is not invariable, not by a long shot, and it certainly doesn't operate nearly as quickly as we might like. first of all, e-ink is burdened with a lot of patents. second, it has had a very long history of owners who have bought in at a high price, learned the setbacks over years, and then "flipped" the technology to a new set of owners, who bought in at a high price, learned the setbacks, etc. in other words, there are a lot of investors who still want to see the profitable return that they believed was "inevitable". so they have a desire to produce "in larger quantities", but they have little inclination to drop the price, even a little bit. moreover, it's expensive to scale up their production facilities, and they've already overextended their ability to borrow money, not to mention the normal blah-blah about today's economy... so i wouldn't look for a quick drop in the price of e-ink screens. and that means you won't get a quick drop in the price of the machines that utilize such screens. sorry. it just won't happen. -bowerbird