Kindle/nook and ebooks

[spooky]

Originally Posted by Ansur

Nope, the iPad is still a backlight product that is harsher on the eyes. That's just like reading it on the computer screen you are reading this on. I want a color e-ink product that is like reading paper. Then I want Spiderman vs. Wolverine and the whole original X-Men series on it.

From a producer's point of view, I would prefer the backlit screen(we actually have something in the works). It has a much wider color gamut than print. A wider color gamut and not having to worry about over saturation on the press leading to inconsistent looking pages means you can color a book unhindered. And trust me when I tell you, coloring for comics is a pain in the ass(as demonstrated by the majority of industry colorists failing so hard at it).

Originally Posted by Dee

Kindle and other 6" ereaders are around 167 ppi

There are some color eReaders, although color e-ink isn't ready yet. Some companies do have prototypes available, but I'd say it's 8-12 months away.

Thank you, ma'am, your expertise is the only one I really trust(and I'm glad these things are catching on, making you in demand instead of obsolete).

[Dee]

Originally Posted by spooky

Thank you, ma'am, your expertise is the only one I really trust(and I'm glad these things are catching on, making you in demand instead of obsolete).

Gracias, I'm glad they're catching on too.

Here's my company:

Skiff

[EastTexas]

The pictures of the Skiff one are cool. I like the one showing its bendiness.
Does it cost as much as the others?

[Dee]

It doesn't bend, that's the screen that's inside the device. It's to show that it's not made of glass and that it's durable.

No price released yet.

[DudeEMETIB]

Originally Posted by Dee

You can highlight and annotate, but it depends on device you have. The Kindle, Nook, and Sony Readers all let you add notes via keyboard, although the devices sort of suck for typing text. There's a few Sony devices that are touch screen though, which come with a stylus. You can write on there just as you would a print book.

That's interesting to note. I can imagine typing with a keyboard would suck, but the stylus thing sounds interesting. How well can it read your handwriting? Is it like most things where your handwriting comes out shitty? I dislike that about stylus things. Especially when I'm signing my signature after using a credit card...I don't know why, but it just bugs me when my handwriting comes out looking stupid. lol

Also that skiff does look really cool and is making me reconsider my opinion of ereaders.

[Dee]

Originally Posted by DudeEMETIB

That's interesting to note. I can imagine typing with a keyboard would suck, but the stylus thing sounds interesting. How well can it read your handwriting? Is it like most things where your handwriting comes out shitty? I dislike that about stylus things. Especially when I'm signing my signature after using a credit card...I don't know why, but it just bugs me when my handwriting comes out looking stupid. lol

Also that skiff does look really cool and is making me reconsider my opinion of ereaders.

The Sony can read it pretty well I think - it's not like the credit card thingies, it comes out as you write it. Like the old PDAs

Originally Posted by kaligula

The skiff is being produced, I believe, by Rupert Murdoch and the Hearst Corporation, so make sure you keep your soul after the EULA.

Murdoch isn't involved - and Hearst created the company, but it's a separate company now.


Fascinating shit in the news over the weekend about Amazon removing the buy links for all Macmillan titles (print and digital, I believe), because Macmillan is trying to take control of its pricing. What a freaking douchebag response, Bezos.

[Ansur]

Ok, the Skiff was the one I read about on CNN and looked up. I didn't know someone here was involved, so cool! I'll still hold off on buying one until I see one dealing with Marvel and DC comics.

[DudeEMETIB]

I don't think I'd have too much use for any of the skiff, it just looks like if I were to get one a reader, that'd be a neat one to have.

I'm sticking to real books.

[Ansur]

I also like books, but one of these Skiff things and a stack of SDHC memory cards and I could carry every book I ever want to read with me, in my book bag, and still have less weight than my average hardcover book.

Dee, does the Skiff read .pdf and .lit, or is it going to be only a proprietary format? If so, would it grayscale a color pdf file?

Also, one thing that I think is so cool about eReaders is that it will make it easier for smaller authors to get published. With no cost of printing and no bookstores figuring out how many copies to order, a writer could actually write, edit, and submit their work in the required format and be available for sale for a very small cost. It also allows the author a much higher profit per book, but at the cost of advertising/promotion that a publishing company could do.

[Dee]

We haven't released any of that info yet.

But the one thing about making it easier for authors to publish their own stuff is that it makes it more difficult to find good stuff. The market gets saturated by self-published things, and it's hard to tell what's good and what's not. That's why publishers will never go away - they're curators of content and people look to them to produce good stuff.