Michael Dahan, co-founder as well as CEO, of Bookeen gives a most interesting interview. Here are a couple of excerpts and for the full interview, including a discussion of Mobipocket and Epub, you can go here.
Q: The Gen3 and the Opus use E Ink, while the new Orizon will use Sipix’s e-paper. Why did you change to this display technology?
For three major reasons:
1. AUO (Sipix) touchscreen is light year away from Sony resistive technology. You keep the optical quality of ePaper and you get an incredibly reactive touchscreen. For us touchscreen on such a large display is a must-have.
2. AUO has great developments and move incredibly fast.
3. We did not want to depend only on one screen manufacturer (PVI).
Q: What do you think are the main challenges in the e-reader market?
There are plenty of them. Here are three:
* From a technical point of view, flexible screens introduce new technical challenges which remain completely unaddressed.
* Software interface are still very clumsy and don’t utilize the full potential of current ePpaer displays.
* From a business development point of view, many areas remain untouched by the eBook Readers like Education, technical documentation and newspaper. There’s still a lot of work to do in these fields.
