Acer LumiRead e-reader - hit and miss

Acer, who apparently had declared that they were not going to enter the e-reader market, have come out with a kindle-clone. With the explosion of e-readers and tablets being pumped into the market this year there are going to be some winners and losers. I get a sense that this is going to be an overpriced loser. The barcode scanner is the clue - why not just use a camera and some software?

Acer announces LumiRead e-reader Wif, 3G, qwerty | The Digital Reader:

"It also comes with an ISBN scanner (I’m looking forward to when this gets hacked) so you can scan the ISBN of a book you’re interested in and Google it."