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Also financial capital is actually something in comparison quite dynamic in a company. You can catch capital if you need it from either loans, or you can even (within limits) sell or buy you own shares to move money in or out as you need it. So arguing with the optimal place of money is IMHO not a good point to start with. On the other hand companies have fixed assets, like personnal. Altough you can quickly get rid of it, it takes a lot of time to get it, to train it, to get the teams working somethly. [Something one investor at a company I worked at didnt get. You cannot fire personnal during some bad months, hire new coders after you get better, and expect the new team even being closely as productive as the old one. So for any company, deciding what your R&D department works on is a fundamental strategic decission. But not so much where you liquid assets are right at the moment.... because they are compared to anything else *liquid* Quote:
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And as a share holder you know that it often is quite the contrary. Enourmous companies are "blue chips", they will give you some fair calculatable revenue for your invested money. But very likely nothing extraordinary will happen. If you buy sharers of a little new company, they easly can be tenfold or more worth within a few years, or they are worth nothing. Last edited by axel77; 10-04-2008 at 11:26 AM. |
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I'm intrigued that so many people seem enthusiastic at the idea of buying ebooks from a bookstore. Is there evidence of any demand for this from existing users?
It sounds rather like iPod users going to a record store to download music. They don't - and they would probably just laugh if you suggested it. Personally, as I've said before, I think that bookstores selling liseuses is like turkeys voting for Christmas. But maybe I'm missing something. |
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Thanks for attending the event. Great report! Also, could you ask your contact about dictionary support, even as a firmware upgrade? |
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10-04-2008, 03:33 PM | #53 | |
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I've run into a lot of people who like the look and utility of a reader, but are a little hesitant about having to load stuff off a computer. I personally fell that thates one of main reasons for the popularity of the kindle. You can easily buy stuff without connecting it to a computer. And the only reason Amazon was able to do it is that the US has a large homogeneous market, where they could cut a deal with a single provider for wireless. Not so internationally. Wifi is not going to help this market. The advantage of the Store is that its a familiar place. They go there, and can have someone do the complicated stuff the first few times. Maybe in the future they could do it them selves. I speak from my own experience with my mom. I load up everything for her when I see her, her reader, ipod, computer updates, etc. If she had to do it herself, she would probably avoid it, or not use it. She does however read a lot, and for her the convenience the reader has bough her is great. In her and similar cases, if the store could load book on it for her, she would probably buy a lot of book in e-book format, which she currently gets in paper. It also gives the stores a stake in this new distribution channel, for while its going to grow fast, its no where near going to replace the bookstore for a long time. It will also put pressure on Publishers, as stores will want to be able to offer multiple formats of e-books alongside the paperbacks, perhaps offering packages of both . |
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I would love to open up an Ebook/coffee store.
The customer experience would be like this. You come in and sit at a table and touch the large landscape tablet PC on your table(there would be one per seat) to unlock it and then use the software to browse a library of books with full colour front and back covers, a waiter/ress comes over and takes a drinks order. The electronic searching allows the standard title/author/genre and also then add things like if you like [insert author/book] then you will like these books, search by most popular downloaded by people who like a certain tv show or are from a specific city etc. Make your purchases using your card in the machine and then connect your reader or type in your email address and you get your books. I would spend a couple of hours in their every week no probs. |
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What would be the real advantage to a traditional library? Since you have to be in the place, the high mobility of electronic readers doesn't quite count. Acknowledge in a magazin based library it takes an hour to order a book out of the magazin. However for example at our natonal library I pay 10€ / year and I have access to an enourmous amount of books and I don't have to pay anything per card for any pay-per-use stuff. Also you have all the major daily newspapers for free there. And all this digital searching and ordering by clicking OPAC can do for years already. I love our national library, they got very comfortable chairs, good coffee machines, a big lot of books, and is usually swarmed by beautiful wormen. Too bad I soo seldomly take the time to go there. ---- EDIT: Ok I get it now, in you ebook store you can take the copies at home. Sorry my fault, I thought you ment a place where you can go to read stuff on the "shops" eInk displays... I think you are right, what I think is missing is the "salesman". A little expert you can go to and ask questions about stuff you want to buy. You don't get it. Yes amazon got some features like "others who bought that did buy this"... but it by far doesn't replace the expert you get in a good bookshop. Last edited by axel77; 10-04-2008 at 04:48 PM. |
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Paper books aren't going away. Pbooks and eBooks will co-exist for the foreseeable future. People go to bookstores now to buy the paper versions. If they have a reader, why shouldn't they be able to buy eBooks in the same trip? Quote:
Folks at MR may be comfortable with online ordering, but not everyone is. And a reader has intangible factors like look and feel. For a lot of folks, the tipping point will be able to hold one in their hands and play with it. You can't do that online. Partnering with retailers who sell books is a natural for a reader manufacturer like Sony. They sell devices, through retailers, now. The are trying to reach people who read, and give them an opportunity to actually see and try the product before purchase. Where else might you suggest they find them? ______ Dennis |
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I do expect the sales folks on the floor to have some knowledge of the books they sell and stock, if only to tell me whether they have a title in stock. You would want something like a docent, who could provide information on readers and available electronic books. That person might well either be based in the cafe, or give scheduled talks on the matter in the cafe, though normally based elsewhere. ______ Dennis |
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Dennis --
First, thanks again for attending and giving us this great writeup. You mentioned that you'd be following up with some contacts in the following days, so I have a quick question that you can hopefully pass along.... What is the OS X (or Linux, or anything) compatibility going to be with the new software and reader? Is sony going to have a method of buying from their store from OS X (again, or Linux)? Are they going to push other stores towards host OS neutrality? Will the 700 keep the functionality of appearing as a USB Mass Storage Device to OSX/Linux? Thanks! |
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