Copia's Cheap Slates Take on Apple, Sony Sails Serenely On

Amazon is credited with basically inventing the modern e-reader phenomenon, just as Apple is reinventing the entire slate PC genre--but Copia, who we wrote about yesterday with their color-screened $99 Kindle challenger, really plans on entering both markets with a huge splash.

CrunchGear has been speaking to the new pretender, and discovered that in addition to the super-cheap Wave5 e-reader there's a bunch of other slate-format devices en route. First up is the actual challenger to the...