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Plastic Logic has cancelled all pre-orders for its large screen e-reader Que, and is no longer showing a date at which the device will be launched, according to http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2010/06/plastic-logic-que-e-reader-turns-... target="_blank">Wired.
Although the company is describing it as a "delay", the magazine suggests the device is "increasingly looking like vaporware".
“We need to let you know that since your unit will not ship on June 24 as planned, our automated ordering system has automatically canceled your order,” Plastic Logic sent in an e-mail to its customers.
Touted as a device for business people, Microsoft Word, Microsoft Office, PowerPoint, Excel, and PDFs, as well as e-books, magazines and newspapers, can be accessed from the Que. A 4-GB version of the Que with Wi-Fi and storage for about 35,000 documents was priced at $650 (£430). The company also announced a $800 8-GB version that includes Wi-Fi and 3G capability.
Wired described this offering, and its price tag, as "an ambitious move and one out-of-sync with the trend in the e-reader market".
http://bookseller-association.blogspot.com/2010/06/plastic-logic-to-beco... target="_blank" title="On">http://bookseller-association.blogspot.com/2010/06/plastic-logic-to-beco... his digital blog, Martyn Daniels wrote: "Plastic Logic have made the fatal mistake of promising too much and taking too long to deliver in a rapidly changing world. They would have been far wiser to get out there a year ago with some shortfalls and get it right on version two than strive for perfection and never deliver or arrive to the party as all the guests are leaving."