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Originally Posted by yvanleterrible
Usb mass storage would work. Those 'Cruzer' devices are quite cheap nowadays... Couldn't you hookup with a device manufacturer?
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Well, I was thinking of an automated kiosk, left at a bookseller or other venue, that would dispense e-books purely electronically, not give out hardware with books on it. If the kiosk used retail-type HW and SW (say, a Dell PC, or software from Red Hat), I might try to wrangle branding/ deals to discount the equipment.
Anyway, with only 10 books to sell, I'm not sure the kiosk idea would work for me. But for a major publisher, I think it would be great! Maybe something worth designing and trying to sell to them, to break them into e-books in smaller venues like used book stores.
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Originally Posted by yvanleterrible
A tour of book shows would be a better outlet for you.
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As a matter of fact, if I were to do a tour, I would probably put the e-books on a mini-CD, the cheapest form of storage hardware out there. If I had a laptop with internet connectivity on-site, I could e-mail it.
USB transfer sounds good, but there are so many variables to deal with: Who brings connection cables for their device with them to a show? Do I stock a few dozen cables, and see which one works? Some PDAs and other hardware won't connect to a PC and exchange files without installing connectivity software and accounts... who's going to wait for that? The more you think about it, even a common format like USB isn't great for this.