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03/30/09
03/30/09
The other market for ebook readers will be educational with larger screens and annotation and search functions, I see that being the true market for webpad or tablet format light computers.
And, so far, "they" have not released the technology for color that will make the comic book, sorry, "Graphic Novel", market explode for ebooks. Not to mention the other market for color image publications (wink wink nudge nudge).
03/30/09
As for this idea that graphic novels and comic books are going to be the content that pushes mass adoption of ebook readers, I'm not so sure. Yes, there are a lot of people who read comics and graphic novels, but my guess is that they tend to want to keep them as collectibles much more than most book readers want to collect books. And the demographic is very different - my guess is that it would have to drop in price significantly to be attractive to most of the comic market (which, despite having adult fans is still mostly a youth market).
03/30/09
I hope they fail miserably, because they are lame as shit. This isn't like music, where people want to cycle through a bunch of albums at once. You're probably only reading one book at a time.
03/30/09
Also, being able to carry around reference materials would be useful to me.
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There are lots of other periodicals available for the Kindle as well, including the Wall Street Journal, Fortune magazine, Time Magazine, the Economist, USA Today, US News, MIT Technology Review.... about 25 different US newspapers and 25 US magazines so far.
I don't think there's any two ways about it; Kindle (and like devices) will ultimately replace paper periodicals. Whether they replace paper books is another matter and will likely take a lot longer.
NOTE: people who don't have a Kindle can get most of these periodicals web versions on their device by using Calibre.
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Oooookay.
03/30/09
time to shower. For $260 and knowing it came from the same people who produce the kindle, it seems justifiable to save the $ where it would otherwise be wasted.
I would have thought amazon would have had some kind of NDA or related contract in place resisting competition from the people who create their own product...