More Thoughts on eBook Market
February 21, 2006
Burt Helm, who does a solid job of covering electronic publishing at Business Week, has a new article on the potential for the eBook market. He discusses the Sony device again, and also speculates on what Apple might be up to. (Which reminds me that I havent heard from the Sony PR person yet.)
As I have said in a couple of places (here and here), having a good device is one thing, but you also need excellent foolproof sites for marketing the content and supporting the customers. I had a bear of a time with my older son’s Napster installation this past weekend. A hiccup in his membership led to several hours of troubleshooting, and eventually led me to reinstall the firmware on his MP3 player. I have to say the Napster tech support was mediocre at best—and this after 20 minutes on hold. The Creative Labs folks (maker of his Zen Micro MP3 player) were excellent. They knew eactly what steps to walk me through, and were very systematic about it. So good device, and good technical support on the device, but the site definitely let him down.
Posted by Bill Trippe at February 21, 2006 11:22 PM
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Thought you might be interested in this "group read" of an e-book.
Beginning March 12, PDA 24/7, a UK-based website, is hosting a "group read" of the serialized email mystery novel "The Daughters of Freya". Readers will be able to speculate about the mystery, while it unfolds, in an online discussion forum. Details are here:
http://www.clieuk.co.uk/forum/showthread.php?p=21656#post21656
Posted by Michael Betcherman at March 8, 2006 4:09 PMPost a comment
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Thought you might be interested in this "group read" of an e-book.
Beginning March 12, PDA 24/7, a UK-based website, is hosting a "group read" of the serialized email mystery novel "The Daughters of Freya". Readers will be able to speculate about the mystery, while it unfolds, in an online discussion forum. Details are here:
http://www.clieuk.co.uk/forum/showthread.php?p=21656#post21656
Posted by Michael Betcherman at March 8, 2006 3:58 PM