And besides, how many milliseconds exactly does it take you to flip a physical page, reposition your hold of the book, crack the spine so that you can see the center of the page better, etc?
I was on the subway today and was watching a guy reading a paper book and waiting for a lull in the train's motion before risking letting go of the hand rail to change the page. All the people next to him with eInk readers were happily changing their pages.
And how much time and energy are you wasting trying to prevent wind from slipping your pages when you're outside?
It might not help with your porn experience (though i displays manga fine, which should carry over to all genres thereof), but it might make you look smarter, and you might quite possibly get the real thing one day.
I believe they produce eInk displays in really large sizes and cut them up later, so there's no reason you couldn't purchase such a display. Of course, you'd have to write your own controller to drive it.
There's probably no demand for eink picture frames. The main advantage of eInk is the lack of eye strain for most people. But you don't look at a picture frame long or intently enough for that to matter, so there really is no point. And most picture frames would likely be close to a power source, so battery would not be a major issue.
Most eink readers display pictures as "screensavers" fine, so it's not a matter of vapor ware but one of no one wanting the product.
An economy where people shell out good money on a phone that's marginally better than the expensive phone they bought less than 12 months ago. A one time fee of 100 in that context is meager.
But you do have to wonder how much life is left in those small comic book shops. Mom&pop owned book stores that carry all kinds of books that likely cater to a more diverse customers are finding it difficult to stay open, so a shop catering to a very specific group of readers would have even a harder time. Kids no longer read these; they have their touch phones and video games. So your customer base is dwindling down to aging people trying to relive their glory years of comics.
I think that's called making a stand, and trying to force the other guys hand so that your books ARE available anywhere, any time, on any device, and not to settle on only 2 of those.
Why would you be so shortsighted as to only see the immediate sales of the physical comics versus a set precedent of exclusive content?
And between online ebook store, you couldn't pick a more closed one. Readers like Sony's and others (not terribly sure about most of the others) use the open ePub format and support Adobe's ADC, so you can purchase books at a store, regardless of which reader you have.
I'm surprised people are down on B&N for this. Give them a hand and they'll take the whole arm. How many other titles will be exclusively available in DRMed MOBI if stuff like this is accepted without a peep?
Congress gets in the middle of all kinds of anticompetitive deals, whether they concern wants or needs. Case in point, Sirius/XM. It's about fairness in business and consumers' choice and protection. It doesn't matter whether it's a luxury item or not.
Or: "Hmm, B&N spending money advertising The Watchmen. Let me go buy it for my Nook. Oh they don't have it. One step closer to switching to a Kindle for me."
They'd be reaching more people than/. and telling them their eReader selection is inferior to that of Amazon's.
from getting IP space from a datacenter and using it until it gets a bad reputation.
And besides, if you have a block of IPs just to cycle it between botnets and spammers, just because it changes hands doesn't clean the block's reputation. So these blocks will also get blacklisted in short order.
How is one party's politically driven public agenda related to what Totenglocks is saying that he sees with his own eyes?
Yes, Republicans claim bias. Democrats claim the same. Just listen to any dem/liberal sources, and you'll see it, easily. Wow, gee whitakers. A party does things to win votes. Call 60 Minutes and Jon Stewart.
I think it might just be the dumbing down of internet discussion. Same thing takes place when, for example, you try to discuss a European sport like F1 on a European site, like crash.net. Say something bad about one driver and you're automatically called a blind follower of whoever that driver had a crash with. And there are 22 drivers on the grid! But your affiliation is made for you in even a greater degree.
It's also happened on sites like digg, and in discussion that have nothing to do with politics.
Maybe the anonymous and impersonal nature brings out the rudeness in people.
Funny how they discount real books that you own, but not the _license_ you buy to read an ebook, which often is just a few bucks less than the real thing.
I'm sure there are markets where you could sell that heart, and the illegality of it probably makes that asset worth a lot more. So yes, still an asset.
B&N isn't some faceless entity using Windows machines with worms on them to relay their spam. If you get mail from them after opting out, then you could pursue damages under CAN-SPAM.
(queue a cynical response about B&N being no different, and instead selling the info to a subsidiary or something)
I guess I was speaking in general teams about the slagging eReaders get. Manipulating pictures, recording anything, etc, would be slow on an eReaders to the point of making it useless. It takes long enough to create a bookmark, or an annotation, between the various menus taking a second or two to come up.
Manufacturers would have to beef up the specs, thereby lowering the battery life, thereby putting in a bigger battery, thereby making the thing bigger/heavier. It's just not necessary when you have these functions on a cell phone. So who cares.
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And besides, how many milliseconds exactly does it take you to flip a physical page, reposition your hold of the book, crack the spine so that you can see the center of the page better, etc?
I was on the subway today and was watching a guy reading a paper book and waiting for a lull in the train's motion before risking letting go of the hand rail to change the page. All the people next to him with eInk readers were happily changing their pages.
And how much time and energy are you wasting trying to prevent wind from slipping your pages when you're outside?
It doesn't take a full second for a page refresh. I appreciate you trying to make a point, but don't embellish facts to help yourself.
It might not help with your porn experience (though i displays manga fine, which should carry over to all genres thereof), but it might make you look smarter, and you might quite possibly get the real thing one day.
Who pronounces ink as eeenk? Most people would likely pronounce the whole thing "ee-ynk".
Hmm, maybe get your eyesight checked? Not having the right prescription can cause headaches.
I believe they produce eInk displays in really large sizes and cut them up later, so there's no reason you couldn't purchase such a display. Of course, you'd have to write your own controller to drive it.
Marketers will market and pontificators will pontificate. Plenty of tech gets pumped, big whoop. Wanna fight about it?
It did not take 1 second for a page refresh. If it did, it might have been doing something else.
There's probably no demand for eink picture frames. The main advantage of eInk is the lack of eye strain for most people. But you don't look at a picture frame long or intently enough for that to matter, so there really is no point. And most picture frames would likely be close to a power source, so battery would not be a major issue.
Most eink readers display pictures as "screensavers" fine, so it's not a matter of vapor ware but one of no one wanting the product.
An economy where people shell out good money on a phone that's marginally better than the expensive phone they bought less than 12 months ago. A one time fee of 100 in that context is meager.
But you do have to wonder how much life is left in those small comic book shops. Mom&pop owned book stores that carry all kinds of books that likely cater to a more diverse customers are finding it difficult to stay open, so a shop catering to a very specific group of readers would have even a harder time. Kids no longer read these; they have their touch phones and video games. So your customer base is dwindling down to aging people trying to relive their glory years of comics.
I think that's called making a stand, and trying to force the other guys hand so that your books ARE available anywhere, any time, on any device, and not to settle on only 2 of those.
Why would you be so shortsighted as to only see the immediate sales of the physical comics versus a set precedent of exclusive content?
And between online ebook store, you couldn't pick a more closed one. Readers like Sony's and others (not terribly sure about most of the others) use the open ePub format and support Adobe's ADC, so you can purchase books at a store, regardless of which reader you have.
I'm surprised people are down on B&N for this. Give them a hand and they'll take the whole arm. How many other titles will be exclusively available in DRMed MOBI if stuff like this is accepted without a peep?
Should check your eyesight if you see no reason for getting an eReader.
Congress gets in the middle of all kinds of anticompetitive deals, whether they concern wants or needs. Case in point, Sirius/XM. It's about fairness in business and consumers' choice and protection. It doesn't matter whether it's a luxury item or not.
Not sure about comics, but Manga looks very good even on 6" eInk displays.
Or: "Hmm, B&N spending money advertising The Watchmen. Let me go buy it for my Nook. Oh they don't have it. One step closer to switching to a Kindle for me."
They'd be reaching more people than /. and telling them their eReader selection is inferior to that of Amazon's.
from getting IP space from a datacenter and using it until it gets a bad reputation.
And besides, if you have a block of IPs just to cycle it between botnets and spammers, just because it changes hands doesn't clean the block's reputation. So these blocks will also get blacklisted in short order.
How is one party's politically driven public agenda related to what Totenglocks is saying that he sees with his own eyes?
Yes, Republicans claim bias. Democrats claim the same. Just listen to any dem/liberal sources, and you'll see it, easily. Wow, gee whitakers. A party does things to win votes. Call 60 Minutes and Jon Stewart.
I think it might just be the dumbing down of internet discussion. Same thing takes place when, for example, you try to discuss a European sport like F1 on a European site, like crash.net. Say something bad about one driver and you're automatically called a blind follower of whoever that driver had a crash with. And there are 22 drivers on the grid! But your affiliation is made for you in even a greater degree.
It's also happened on sites like digg, and in discussion that have nothing to do with politics.
Maybe the anonymous and impersonal nature brings out the rudeness in people.
Funny how they discount real books that you own, but not the _license_ you buy to read an ebook, which often is just a few bucks less than the real thing.
I'm sure there are markets where you could sell that heart, and the illegality of it probably makes that asset worth a lot more. So yes, still an asset.
B&N isn't some faceless entity using Windows machines with worms on them to relay their spam. If you get mail from them after opting out, then you could pursue damages under CAN-SPAM.
(queue a cynical response about B&N being no different, and instead selling the info to a subsidiary or something)
I guess I was speaking in general teams about the slagging eReaders get. Manipulating pictures, recording anything, etc, would be slow on an eReaders to the point of making it useless. It takes long enough to create a bookmark, or an annotation, between the various menus taking a second or two to come up.
Manufacturers would have to beef up the specs, thereby lowering the battery life, thereby putting in a bigger battery, thereby making the thing bigger/heavier. It's just not necessary when you have these functions on a cell phone. So who cares.
Uhuh, the Fire is a brand new product. WHAT old one? WTF are you talking about.