Brother's SV-70 e-book reader is a little bit cheaper, still $1,100
By Tim Stevens 
posted February 12th 2010 8:21AM
posted February 12th 2010 8:21AM
posted February 12th 2010 8:21AM
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If I had $1100 I'd buy a car, not a book reader.
@gollu
thats one shitty car
@gollu
If I had $1100 I'd buy a hoe, not a shitty car.
@gollu If I had $1,100, my bank would come and take it away...
@gollu If I had $1100 I'd buy a fake-fur coat.
I would buy two iPads. One for the shop and one to drive.
I don't understand why this thing costs so much. How is it better than other e-readers?
Yes please Engadget - a little more info on these e-Ink readers WRT contrast ratio might help explain things and compare apples to apples.
Let's all hope e-Ink starts to emerge from gray-on-gray and into something even more readable. The images here hint that may be the case, but how 'bout if we bubble the real info about this right up to the top?
WTF how about one company hire a left handed designer. This is crap! Put some controls on the left for once.
@jsl4980
Turn it round?
@in5ane
Hire this man!
Even after reading the specs I can't figure out why this thing is $1100.
@sweet greggo Maybe it does Flash or something...
@sweet greggo because its made for business people, who don't care.
Where do they hide the on/off switch on these things?
@Luke right under the text that says "on / off". the one that, uh, glows green. hard to see, i know.
$1100 Is it made of gold or something?
@kyphem Um..... Most electronics Have some gold in them.
@kyphem
it's probably got platinum not gold...
platinum bullion 1513
gold bullion 1094
It's expensive because it's aimed at large businesses, which could probably buy it in bulk with a discount (of course they'd do equally well with a Sony). All it would take is one good salesperson to persuade the boss to adopt a "paper-free office" policy, and the e-readers would pay for themselves in a year or two. I've been to paper-less business buildings in Madrid. The concept is sound. The only paper I saw was in the lavatory.
@Chris Aubeck Tree-hugger. Way to kill the logging industry.
@Showbiz You can always ask the staff canteen to serve everything with prunes.
@Chris Aubeck in other words, they put it at this price point just because they can? that's lame. no other company would ever do that. oh wait...
for 1100 freakin US dollarz I could buy a Kindle DX, an iPad and a role of duct tape
@FCells
Can't forget the roll of duct tape
If this reader had rapid performance, like being much closer to flipping through all the pages in a real book etc then it would be worth the price tag.
Too much money for my blood. I'd rather by the SONY e-Reader it cost less than that expensive thing. Who want's to spend grand on a expensive e-Reader when the books you buy online cost less?
I wonder if they make these at the brother plant up the street from my house.
I thought "brother" went out of business a long long time ago...
What?!? No Swarovski crystals?!?!
For $1100 it had better come with an android replicant pleasure model.