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02-13-2011, 01:07 AM | #2 |
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02-13-2011, 01:18 AM | #3 |
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fascinating account of the primitive brains that infest the world today.
I've just started reading the classic novel Robinson Crusoe in my smartphone, BTW... |
02-13-2011, 03:29 AM | #4 |
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What amazes me is how rarely people mention the words "novella" or "novelette" in this context.
I suspect the thing about more short works geting published on their own isn't that shorter works are more suitable for ereading devices than long works, but that for shorter works, digital publishing may be more suitable than print publishing. Binding something that's 12,000 words long all on its own isn't that practical, so on paper it's usually collected together with other short works. With digital publishing, something can be written to its "natural length" rather than to a certain print-dictated page count. I've seen that a lot with webcomics compared with print comics. Each chapter as long as the creator thinks tells the story best, vs each issue 24 (or was it 21?) pages... |
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it's a way to sell stories normally reserved to being serialized or just published as shorts in an anthology or a rag like the SF mags such as Asimov's SF or, heck I am having a "brain cloud" but you get the idea. It's a way to not just exploit the dwindling 5-minutes between commercials attention span but also to monetize the stacks of these stories on slush piles everywhere so I like the idea as long as the price is reasonable but I ain't paying about $0.99 for them.
bugs me when the $/hour of reading starts to break the $0.25/hr price point. I hate to break it out like that but if it helps I have estimated that the large grocery store chains have set about a $5/lb price for people on a typical meal. So it's just me being a bit suspicious about motives everywhere anymore. Must be early onset CRS (as in can't remember *sheet*). |
02-15-2011, 11:08 AM | #7 |
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If my screen was somewhere between 1.3-3.5 inches I wouldn't want to read anything longer than a page, either.
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kiddin'. It all depends on your settings for fonts and margins. I use no margins as that is a stupid emulation of a physical page for the display already provides a physical boundary and natural margins. And I put the font at 18-20 in a 3.7" portrait display so it's comfortable to read and yet handles almost a full page worth of the physical book... |
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I think his main problem is using a tablet computer with a glossy screen to read on. I don't think I would be able to read for long on something like that.
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Never read though under plain sun light, but I'm guessing it's not the ideal device to bring to the beach. well, considering it would not be worthwhile to bring any e-reader to the beach, I think it's ok... |
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I wonder what Marshall McLuhan would have thought about this...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marshal_McLuhan |
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So this author has trouble reading on a smartphone. Is this a surprise?
Maybe if she tried a Kindle or some other dedicated ereader, she'd have a better experience. I wouldn't sit through all of Lawrence of Arabia on my iPod. Does that mean movies should be made shorter for smaller screens? Yeesh. |
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