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Originally Posted by Solicitous
WOOHOO!!! Robert you've made me one very happy person. Now time to convert all my epubs to FB2.
I have to say thanks for being here Robert and listening to our needs. Who only knows how many companies out there develop a product without listening to the needs/wants of the end-user.
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Dear Solicitous:
I look at this Designated Astak Forum differently than Sony or Kindke would. To me, this is the most learned bunch of experts on the planet regarding eBook Readers. Most of the people on here have owned or do still own many other eBook Readers. THEY KNOW and we do not. Astak is NOT a cornacopia of eBook Reader knowledge. MobileRead Forum is.
Just as the people on MobileRead Forum picked the colors of the Pocket PRO; they also raised hell that it did not have hyperlinks, needed longer battery life, still needs a dictionary, and should have a visable clock. All of these things we added and are working on the dictionary.
In the future, new Astak eBook Readers and new features and a new eBook Store will be coming out. Astak will again consult the experts at MobileRead Forum. I like to think that this is a partnership. I like to think that when we bring out something new that MobileRead Forum and Astak are bringing out something new. I think this is good business sense and cannot go along with the old and tired ways of: "we have a product... now buy the damned thing". I would rather get feedback and do things right. Astak is never going to be a Sony or a Kindle or a Barnes&Noble monster. They have a thousand engineers to come out with concepts. We do not. They can have failures... and Astak cannot. They have Payton Manning and Justin Timberlake to espouse thier products. We have me. We need to listen and change. We need to correct before we go before the less knowledgeable general public who might floor us with questions.
We listen because it is the only way to survive.