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Kindle now available worldwide: Your thoughts? (pg. 3)
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| Moongoose |
| quote: | Originally posted by d-miurge
Ok, I ask it again: what are the advantages of e-books? |
At any one time i will carry at least 50 different books with me on my phone to read while waiting in traffic, waiting at the doctors office, waiting in line in a store, waiting for someone to come out of the bathroom (can take hours if the person is female :) ) basically when there's waiting to be done, time passes by much faster if you have a nice book to read, and logging around a ton of books to suit your mood at any possible time is quite impractical.
Sure, sitting down in a nice comfy chair, with a proper paper book in my hands and a glass of fresh orange juice on a sunny summer sunday morning is still my preferred way to enjoy a good book, but when that isnt available a digital version is still a great way to relieve the boredom.
Until the batteries on the phone run out that is...but then i just swith to th audio version on the ipod :p |
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| nix0807 |
| quote: | Originally posted by DimaShibby
I use the Kindle App on my iPhone every day which is basically the same as the iTouch, and I had no problems so far. The Books are formatted that each page is full screen, with adjustable text, there is no zooming or scrolling required. It memorizes the page you left off with every time you exit the app. Now I am not too sure about adding bookmarks/notes on the iPhone but it should be possible |
Sweet...
Going to go with the iPod Touch.
Can read eBooks, surf web, save music all portable. That rocks!
| quote: | | tubularbills books were meant for paper!! nota fan of anything "ebook" related. |
Save the trees! |
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| tubularbills |
| quote: | Originally posted by nix0807
Sweet...
Going to go with the iPod Touch.
Can read eBooks, surf web, save music all portable. That rocks!
Save the trees! |
still had to knock down a few trees to build the plant that makes the ebook stuff. and then of course you have to power the plant/factory too; so in reality, you're cutting down trees and making pollution. :p
ok so not really to that extreme, but whatev lol |
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| gehzumteufel |
| quote: | Originally posted by tubularbills
still had to knock down a few trees to build the plant that makes the ebook stuff. and then of course you have to power the plant/factory too; so in reality, you're cutting down trees and making pollution. :p
ok so not really to that extreme, but whatev lol |
Most of these devices are built in already built factories. Rarely is a whole new plant built just to manufacture a single electronic device. |
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| tubularbills |
| quote: | Originally posted by gehzumteufel
Most of these devices are built in already built factories. Rarely is a whole new plant built just to manufacture a single electronic device. |
or so you think!
still had to cut some greenery down to build it. unles it's in like the desert.
lol, there's probably a kindle sweatshop in arizona or something LOL |
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| DimaShibby |
| mexicans don't feed on trees..... |
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| gehzumteufel |
| quote: | Originally posted by tubularbills
or so you think!
still had to cut some greenery down to build it. unles it's in like the desert.
lol, there's probably a kindle sweatshop in arizona or something LOL |
I am 99% positive that the kindle is built in a factory that already existed. |
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| tubularbills |
| quote: | Originally posted by gehzumteufel
I am 99% positive that the kindle is built in a factory that already existed. |
and there's some 4 year old girl named esperalda working in arizona making the other 1% :p |
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| gehzumteufel |
| quote: | Originally posted by tubularbills
and there's some 4 year old girl named esperalda working in arizona making the other 1% :p |
:stongue: :stongue: :stongue: |
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| astroboy |
I've been following the whole ereader thing for a while and I must say the Nook looks the best so far. The one problem with e-ink is that it takes a while to change image (a couple of seconds) this is tolerable for page turning, but I can see it getting really annoying for navigating menus and browsing your collection etc.. this is why the Nooks second capacitive lcd screen is so ingenious... Also it runs on android which I suspect will be hackable.
In general though this is a market that's only going to become more competitive over the next couple of years so we'll probably see a whole lot of improvements in both technology and implementation. |
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| tubby |
all the newer e-books are very easy on the eyes, certainly no worse than reading a paper copy. As for batteries, they will last a hell of a long time, the only time they draw power is when turning a page.
still waiting to see how the publishers handle all of this. the immediate win for consumers should be the out of copyright stuff. the rest is proving an industry battle, with different reades and stores trying to push their own formats. Add to this the very same region restrictions that annoy us with music.
As for costs - don't expect them to be much cheaper than a paper copy. Overal costs for a book, printing is a very minor component, though warehousing is a little more. A lot of publishers systems are set to throw away mint copy returns of many titles as it's cheaper to print a new one than to pay someone to put the unit back to the shelf.
Current thinking i about 80% of the paper copy - but then there's things like trade copy vs paperback. When we release trade copy that costs maybe 30% more - is the e-book going to cost 30% more untilt he paperback copy is released, even though e-copy is identical ? |
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| Demoted |
| If Kindle installs a peephole function I will buy it. Stat. |
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