Dvice.com has an initial review of the Skiff Reader. The photo is from their website – it shows how the device bends. As I mentioned a few days ago, the Skiff is designed for newspapers and magazines.
Computerworld also has a good review of the Skiff and the Que reader.
Wether any of these devices is the one to disrupt a marketplace, as the iPod did to music, the extensive coverage over the last few days our of the CES Show at Las Vegas is building consumer expectation. The more early adopters play with these new devices the faster we will get to the iPod moment for a device which disrupts print.
These devices challenge us to develop more flexible businesses. Newsagents putting in new shopfits which are not flexible are nuts. We need to be able to change as fast as the world around us is changing. Sadly, I still see new shop fits with purpose-built magazine fixturing. The new concept store I have a half share in at Knox City in Victoria is completely flexible.
MarketWatch has a good review of the e-reader activity over the last few days at the Las Vegas CES show.