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Originally Posted by Frogm4n
The only company that I'm aware of with the pull to get custom sizes of eink panels is Amazon. I really doubt reMarkable is going to be able to negotiate anything except for standard 10.3/13.3 inch panels like every other brand that is not Amazon.
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Given the slow ereader/enote sales, I would have to say that at this time, Walmart has much more pull than Amazon. The majority of EInk's products are now shelf label devices and not ereaders. The first batch that Walmart ordered for 500 American stores was 60,000,000 devices and that has been expanded to all Walmart locations in the USA. In Canada, the ~400 Walmart stores according to one report have already rolled out ~46,000,000 shelf label devices. How many ereaders does everyone sell in total over a year?
Not to mention that historically, B&N and Kobo have both had time limited exclusives on eInk panels used in their ereaders.