What part of this did you miss?

Publishers will eventually get it. But people have to be aware that ereaders are capable of it in order to be able to complain to the publisher.

And they are only refusing shipment because they think it might be against some law. So doesn't it fit your list?

Whether it's a Gun Maker's lunch or not, it's still a lunch. If it's an item sold as "Thing for making guns" instead of "Thing for making things" that's where the difference comes in. Your example makes no sense.

EURion constellation. I don't think astronomers have had any problems printing anything.

An android tablet is not a true ereader. Try an e-ink reader. You won't be charging it more than a couple times a month even if you use it every day.

Storing it on the floor is your own fault. Don't blame the manufacturer for their power cord - you have the power to put the charger wherever you want. Your phone probably uses the same charging connector and I don't see you advocating corded wall phones.

If the book itself is important, breaking a reader doesn't matter in the short term. You can immediately resume reading on a desktop computer or phone. And your location is automatically synced. Try that with a paper book.

The article was about textbooks. Not exactly captivating devices. And they didn't make one mention of e-ink devices.

Full page color illustrations isn't the primary use case for ereaders. Some of us read books without pictures.

To some extent. They can reflow within a single page (not that publishers are even providing that). So one page can take up 4 screens on an ereader. But when you get to the end of the page, you see blank space until you flip pages and it starts on the next physical page.

Well - PDF's can't be made to be reflowable either. The format is designed for print and absolutely fixed layouts. PDF doesn't really even have a concept of a paragraph. But Adobe InDesign, the tool most likely used to publish the book and make the PDF can generate ereader formats too and they have plenty of information on how to make that content look good on both formats without throwing out the existing layout entirely.

The morons behind the article must not think that e-ink ereaders are a modern, contemporary device. Unitasking devices are great for certain things and this is one of those things.

Today's digital naive's are like the kids 30 years ago that knew how to program the VCR (I was one of them). Sure, the parents might still have a flashing 12:00 otherwise, but that doesn't make the kid fluent with technology except by comparison.

It's a little slow handling PDF. I have a paperwhite. It has the same margin issue as the Sony ereader. But is that a problem with the ereader or the publisher? The page numbers are usually in the margin for one thing since that's the way the physical page is laid out. Publishers need to move away from PDF to something reflowable like the common HTML-based ebook formats. If the publisher uses InDesign (likely), I know they've already laid out plenty of tools for exporting to a better ereader format than PDF without redesigning the physical book.

I'm not saying PDF is even a proper ereader format, but it does have hyperlinks. If the contents say figure 120, tap on that text. If that doesn't work, it's not the ereader's fault (it's the publisher). Once you're done viewing figure 120, hit the previous location button and you're back where you left off.

It came and went for most because people couldn't justify buying an "inferior" screen and spending more money when they already owned a tablet or phone capable of doing the job.

That was the mistake. I charge my Kindle Paperwhite only once or twice a month and the brightness setting goes so low I don't even care that much that it's blue light. Though I've considered buying a filter to put over the screen.

I disagree that PDF is the gold standard for e-ink. Reflowable content is the future, with HTML-based formats like ePub or Mobi. For one thing, it enables low vision people to have a custom-tailored font size. For another, publishers keep the same margins on PDF ebooks that they do for paper, wasting screen space. And it means the content fits the device's screen no matter what the aspect ratio or size.

At least be thankful they didn't use humans to derive those numbers.

But I don't think that number is the LD50:

I think they're talking about body damage that eventually ends in death - 1/10 of the LD50. Notice how they say liver cirrhosis mortality and not acute alcohol poisoning.

Still not real clear why those numbers were chosen.