I’m not sure the ease of use is going to be an issue even without Amazon.

I might probably blame, more, the fact that more and more of our stuff is made in China-which means outsourcing all the manufacturing knowledge and designs. Face it–we’re losing our edge because we’re letting everyone ELSE make stuff and giving easy access to the materials and knowledge.

Buh!

They restricted themselves to the US market, so somebody has made a machine for the rest of the world. Good on them.

Having the cellular modem and sim card actually makes it more usable than a Kindle – which only works where the one US network is available.

The difference between this and the Kindle is that out of the box, you can turn on the Kindle and start enjoying it. With this, you have to first get the SIM card, then find PDF’s or something, transfer them onto it, etc.

There you’d find Peking University Founder Group is one of China’s biggest personal computer vendors. And from that you could write an interesting story about how China’s second biggest computer vendor has no shame in ripping off one of Americas biggest retailers for the sake of making money.

You could ask why this company didn’t bother with researching and developing its own eBook reader, and investigate the ethics behind such blatant copying.

Hell, with your contacts you could even drop an email over to eInk to ask if their patent has been infringed and if so, are they going to sue?

But of course, why bother, it’s much simpler to just copy and paste a press release and drop a ‘joke’ into your piece.

Good job! Give yourself a raise. When did TechCrunch get so crap?