Quote:
Originally Posted by seanMc
I bought one yesterday. Its not a device, its downloadable package. The thing is I may be a a bit of an outsider here. I read a lot, and I read a lot of ebooks (mostly from Gutenberg), but I don't own any form of reader. I've looked at a couple, but I am one of those people who lugs a laptop around (quite happily)
|
Hey, you sound like you fit in just fine around here -- at the fundamental level, we're about electronic reading -- however you go about it. The recent releases of usable portable reading devices has stacked the deck with portable reading device users, but we have more than a few "notebook readers" around here too.
So, welcome!
Quote:
Originally Posted by seanMc
I came to this site to see what the "hard core" commentators had to say about the "3d book" - unless I missed it, not one of you has actually read it?? So why/how are you all saying its rubbish?
|
I think you're right that none of us has seen it, so, as vivaldirules observed, your impressions are of particular interest to us.
I think part of the ... less than joyous reception they've received is exactly what you've noted -- their press release claimed to be a replacement for e-reader devices, and we looked at it from that perspective. Clearly (from your comments, and the impressions that we've gleaned here) it's not, but something else entirely. I assume/guess that they decided that because e-book readers aren't really mainstream, but most folks have heard of the concept, that they were a good target to 'aim' at in their press release, and most folks wouldn't ever know that the comment was just so much hot air.
I think from your comments and the press release itself, that their marketing folks need to dig a little deeper and do a bit more work in the future, perhaps. They'll do better if they cast their product as what it actually is, rather than something else entirely.
If they'd claimed that their e-textbook made old fashioned textbooks obsolete, they'd have gotten rather a different response, I expect. There'd still be a debate over the claim, of course, but at least the claim would be on point, and that would make it easier for them to support.
