A lot of manufacturers want to make e-book like regular books, but they wont sell because people pay extra for features they don't already have.
I've been reading e-books on my plam for 5 years now. I much perferred my Sony SL10 years back for reading. I could read without backlight for long hours. And then the baclight is perfect for in bed reading.
So making a e-book without a built in light source is stupid. Size should be smaller than most books.
Problem is still new books don't get on these devices. So unless Sony has some "iNovel" site planned where they can distribute every new book this is just a nice electronic reader without any books.
It's really quite straight forward. Companies are always looking for ways to charge segments of the population different prices. Senior coffee, child rates, etc. This allows companies to maximize profit for each segment which will certainly exceed an overall fixed price profit maximization.
Similarly companies seperate consumers into those who send mail in rebates and those who don't each group gets a different price and company makes more money by extracting more consumer surplus from each group. Each group has a different demand for products and value of time.
Easy, you simply read the negative reviews and ignore all the stupid positive reviews (you read those after you bought it to make yourself think you made the best choice)
Look for facts rather than opinions (compare features).
Look for large problems associated with the device (people asking why wont my nm123 power up?).
Try to find comparison reviews, these are often better in my experience.
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A lot of manufacturers want to make e-book like regular books, but they wont sell because people pay extra for features they don't already have.
I've been reading e-books on my plam for 5 years now. I much perferred my Sony SL10 years back for reading. I could read without backlight for long hours. And then the baclight is perfect for in bed reading.
So making a e-book without a built in light source is stupid. Size should be smaller than most books.
Problem is still new books don't get on these devices. So unless Sony has some "iNovel" site planned where they can distribute every new book this is just a nice electronic reader without any books.
It's really quite straight forward. Companies are always looking for ways to charge segments of the population different prices. Senior coffee, child rates, etc. This allows companies to maximize profit for each segment which will certainly exceed an overall fixed price profit maximization.
Similarly companies seperate consumers into those who send mail in rebates and those who don't each group gets a different price and company makes more money by extracting more consumer surplus from each group. Each group has a different demand for products and value of time.
Either you invent it first and use it against them.
Or they invent it first and use it against you.
Next they can design sheild technology to protect themselves from their weapons.
Easy, you simply read the negative reviews and ignore all the stupid positive reviews (you read those after you bought it to make yourself think you made the best choice) Look for facts rather than opinions (compare features). Look for large problems associated with the device (people asking why wont my nm123 power up?). Try to find comparison reviews, these are often better in my experience.
Simple convert to a two colour image and use any basic OCR system.