The Kobo eReader has just been released on thursday in NZ. Interestingly one of the EAs in my team had his wife talking at the launch in Auckland. She's a fairly well known NZ author and was out to support the launch. The device is an amazing price point at $300 - after some digging I've found out you can put your own PDFs on this device. This opens up some extremely interesting possibilities in training and learning. For example a user walkthrough for an application - which is easier to read than flipping screens on a PC. And at $300 this is a very small additional cost to most desktop platforms. I think I might just have to get one and have a play :) I'm also interested to look at the kobo SaaS offering to see the backend that comes with this.