Chinese e-book (Score 1)

Mr. Chu Bong-Foo (also known as the father of Chinese computer) has developed an e-book system in LGPL. In ordered to be an replacement of paper textbooks, it is written in *Assembly* to lower the requirement of hardware. In 2002, it has been used by houndreds of students in Mainland China. I think the most amazing feature of it is that it doens't need power to retain the content on the screen, but only needs power to change the content.
One of the commercial version is sold in Taiwan for NT$5000 (US $150). Two AA batteries for viewing 15000 pages. The resolution(6.5'' 640*480) is a little lower than the Sony one. You can download converted TXT/PDF/HTML and read on it. (More pictures here)