Short answers, pulled from the story.
The iLiad was an electronic handheld e-reader made by iRex Technologies, a spin-off from Philips. It was first advertised in December 2005 and reached general consumers near the end of July 2006, priced at €649 in Europe and $699 in the United States.
iRex Technologies, a company that grew out of Philips, made and distributed the iLiad. The company was based in the Netherlands and filed for bankruptcy protection in early June 2010.
The iLiad used an 8.1-inch active matrix electrophoretic display built with E Ink Vizplex Imaging Film from E Ink Corporation. The screen produced 16 levels of grayscale at 768 by 1024 pixels and 160 dots per inch.
iRex Technologies filed for bankruptcy protection in early June 2010. Chief executive Hans Brons stated that a delayed response from the U.S. Federal Communications Commission to approve the device was the direct cause of the sales decline.
The iLiad supported PDF, Mobipocket, XHTML, and plain text documents, as well as JPEG, BMP, and PNG image files. Mobipocket support, including digital rights management content, was added on the 3rd of May 2007.
The iLiad Book Edition was released in May 2008, based on the iLiad 2nd Edition but without WiFi and finished in silver. It was priced at $599 in the United States and €499 in Europe, and included fifty free classic works by Jules Verne, Charles Dickens, Lewis Carroll, and Leo Tolstoy.