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Originally Posted by MaggieScratch
Is this something the factory has to do? Can't you hire a programmer/designer to do something like that? I know Astak is making lots of investments right now, but I think this would be a good one to make that would give an excellent return. When I'm showing off the device, eye candy would make a difference. People really respond to the book covers, and they are turned off by seeing a list of filenames rather than a list of proper titles.
Think simple and elegant. I'm not a big Apple person in general but aesthetics is one thing they get absolutely right.
I don't know if it's a Jinke thing, but some of the companies who are rebranding the Netronix readers are doing this. Look at Kobo and Bookeen--two companies rebranding basically the same reader, and with great look and feel to the firmware, each quite different from the other and from the factory firmware. (That being said--there are things I prefer on the EZReader firmware with regard to functionality--not having to endlessly scroll through menus, for one thing.)
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Dear Maggie:
Here is the problem. Right now, because of the competition, Astak makes nothing, to speak of, on selling devices.
Yes, in the real world (and eBook Readers are not real world) a company would make 20% at least on each sale. If putting covers and eye candy on there would double sales they would say: "Let's get this done". But double nothing is still nothing.
We ARE hiring our own engineers over in Taiwan. I do not know; but once that is done and they are trained we can ask them. Otherwise we have to beg and plead with the factory who IS making money.