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I finally realized that I was going to buy it (and soon), so that broke the choice down for me to two options: 1) pay $26 for a hardback that I have no place to store, and 2) pay $18 for an e-book that I could store, was the format I'd rather read, and which just might encourage Tor to pull out that stick (you know from where) they seem to have about e-books.
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Of course, all the files I purchased from Baen work just fine on the Reader -- even those I purchased 4 years before I bought the Sony Reader. Xenophon |
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True. Nice thing about being able to convert to LRF is that you get the pictures that way - lots of Baen books have maps in them. Unfortunately you lose those if you use the RTF version directly on the Reader.
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sony was thinking that they could just make a reader and everyone would buy it 'cause it had the sony name on it. fat chance since they p****ed off a lot of their market with that root kit thing on the cds. then there was the minidisk bomb in the us and some are still mad about betamaxes.
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yes, they failed to market it and price it correctly. they acted as if just because it was a sony it would sell for more than a vhs. their fees to other companies were higher than vhs and the movie studios did not like making two versions of the same film. back then it cost a lot more to make a copy than it costs now for a dvd. so yes, sony is the reason that betamax failed. and it was a better picture quality.
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The reason VHS beat Betamax is because there was more porn available on VHS then Betamax. Nothing to do with which was better or marketed better. It all came down to porn.
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Well, porn plus many of the main-stream movie studios and distributors were coaxed into bringing out all their major pictures on VHS.
Content is king -- whichever technology has the content the public wants will win. Which is why Sony better work harder to negotiate book deals with more publishers and authors. |
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But ... how would they manage the time-honored belly-button staple?
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