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Then again, since Amazon doesn't have a store presence, it might be to their advantage to let Sony legitimize the whole e-book reader concept for the mainstream market and get the chatter going. Then Amazon only has to sell its own unit by comparison. It no longer has to sell both the concept and the unit.
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Either way, Amazon is behaving rather oddly -- it's supposed to be 13 days til their launch and all we've heard is the launch date.
I would love to see Amazon and Sony make a whole lot of noise about e-books, nothing like a good clash of the titans to draw attention. |
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A point, that was just a very good rumor: https://www.mobileread.com/forums/showthread.php?t=13756
October came from the NY Times, so it's probably reliable. |
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It seems to be more a matter of garden gnomes fighting over a small and rather smelly pond. At this moment ebook readers are devices for gadget enthousiasts, hobbying programmers who need a challenge, a handfull of real ebook reading fanatics and a few executives who want impress their secretaries. The titans will be clashing over an obscure device that more than 99% of your normal Joe's just shrug about and then forget because in their view reading an ebook means loading, formatting, converting, typesetting, swearing, startup, buttons, more swearing, waiting, charging, button pushing and scrolling, manual reading, updating, still even more swearing, calling repair centers, black/white only, huge initial costs, breaking nails and swearing. "Right...get me my Donald Duck comic and stick that ebook stuff where the sun don't shine..." No amount of noise is going to make a difference to that any time soon. |
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10-03-2007, 06:46 AM | #143 |
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Thanks for that - it made me laugh.
I have only had my Reader for a couple of weeks but have managed to keep things quite simple and straightforward. I have loaded a number of Sony's initial 'free classics' offer and a couple of the texts kindly downloaded onto this site. The operation of the Reader itself is also easy - and a pleasure to use. I am baffled by much of the techno chatter, but looking forward to the 'fix' which enables my Reader to make me a cup of tea in the morning! My one concern is the lack of warranty - being in the UK Last edited by Lloyd Harris; 10-03-2007 at 06:51 AM. |
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The companies responsible for eink and flexible screens are doing a good job with their prototype showings. They feature less intensive simple designs, in a certain way it's more a populist approach. They would have to be because their profit margins would depend more on units sold than exclusivity markets.
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Newspapers absolutely love them whenever there is no real news around. A nice picture with the ever so popular catchy title "Paper to disappear soon". Usualy there's a few exclamation marks in the article itself. Sometimes there is a labcoat type of chappie in the picture as well. ...he is smiling. Quote:
(There's the exclamation marks again, see?) They are sleek, they are fast, cost effective, have two exhaust pipes and in of those you absolutely positively know you'll get the chicks. They are also a con. Study models they are called and one of the highly paid executives from the motorcompany itself is going to ride in them and he'll have one arm hanging loosely out of the window, the other arm around a supermodel of a very different kind. The bastard! The real model that will be coming out the next year has 6 cupholders, enough room for three kids and a dog, it has an adjustable ashtray and a cd-player as an optional extra. It is also boring as hell and is mainly bought by secretaries who buy the thing because "it looks so cute in its standard pink colour and its ever so cheap". You wouldn't want to be found dead in any one of them. My point is ( I do tend to get lost in my own head, sorry) that even the big companies making ebookreaders mainly seem to do so as a study for integrating epaper in the devices that DO sell, like mobile phones. We, the buyers take care of a little of the development cost. Onwards towards colour epaper!!! (stupid exclamation marks...) |
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What I mean is that a simple pure design (without cupholders ) means no fuss, no bells and whistles, even if the thing don't work now!!! Simplicity is a sign of 'not expensive' compared to 'tons of extras'. This is a good approach if you want to sell to Mr. Nocash, and a good way to bring a product to popularity. Take a look at the flexible display, it reminds me of a document protector, is that the look of something expensive? Simple is sold !!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Images like that say 'Hey that's fantastic I can afford it because it looks ordinary' S'all!!! Real simple!!! |
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Let's not forget that the rate at which technology becomes culture (the rate at which we incorporate gadgeds in a way that changes our life) is accelerating. The examples are clear: cell phones, from luxury to commodity in 12 years and of course mp3 players (more precisely ipods), from nerds to Paris Hilton in 5 years. It wouldn't take that much to change the market. going back to the ipod, the ipod hasn't been the end of the recording industry or the CD, that is not the point. The point is, the revolution is we know have access to milions of songs trough itunes. (I say it, even if I still hate DRM). It is my understanding that you don't have to be a geek to purchase and read a book at the Connect store. The Amazon reader will be just as easy. Release a good reader in the $ 100-200 range. Let publisher sign agreements with Amazon, Sony and bookeen to include coupons for discounted ebooks or readers in pbooks. (Amazon could easily do that). Then content explosion will follow and the market will have changed, even if consumers habits will be slower to adapt. My point is: do you really believe ituns song sales could exclusively justify the market shhift and the digital content explosion in the music industry? Maybe in the end a noise and hype do play a role. I for one am hopeful, hardware is almost ready, content and market are not that difficult. (I say it and I have an iLiad.... boy am I hope-fool) Last edited by BKeeper; 10-03-2007 at 07:29 PM. |
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