But the book gets a bad review all the same, even when it’s the device’s limitations. Trust me when I say that reading a travel guide, a Kindle Fire customer will have a totally different experience from a Kindle Paperwhite customer. But I know they’re getting more and more calls/emails from upset customers because their “book doesn’t look right”. I bet publishers never thought they’d see themselves in the “customer service” field. but we’re all killing the book if we’re not openly honest about on which devices ebooks fail and where they work. Imagine what it’d be like trying to view a business book (logging 15 seconds just to see an image) with a gazillion charts or a travel guide with detailed neighborhood maps!? I know everyone is moving at a break neck speed and trying to keep up with formats, devices, standards, unlocking content, etc.
So here I am flipping through their sample ebook of The Hobbit, viewing an inline graphic:ĭo you know how frustrating that is? The screen actually goes black.
I took it at a B&N while checking out the largest most expensive nook HD they had on display. I wanted to share this 16-second video as an example. This is because, when it comes to non-fiction, device makers have yet to consistently deliver a reading experience that comes close to paper when reading charts, graphs, maps, highlighting, writing in margins, etc. I buy 100% of my non-fiction as paper books and about half of my fiction as ebooks. What do you think? Would you give Game of Books a try? What I am anxious to see is how well this resonates with the two budding readers in my house… this seems to be the kind of thing that my son would dig. Some folks might think it’s hokey (which it may be, we’ll have to see) but many like all of their virtual badges and fake pats on the back for “leveling up” across hundreds of check-in apps.
You start off as an Apprentice and then level up as your reading progresses:Īt the bottom of their site, there is also a “concept demo” that shows off what your Reader/Character card would look like. based on the books you read… think Dungeons & Dragons meets LibraryThing. Though Barnes & Noble backtracked and said it would continue to design and make Nook color tablets, the "Will They or Won't They?" trope continues, since a new device has yet to be announced, and holiday shoppers didn't seem interested in the rekindling relationship between the color Nook tablets and Barnes & Noble.Game of Books has been fully funded via their Kickstarter campaign! Basically, it’s home library/book cataloging system where you earn points/skills/etc. A few months later, however, an apparent change of heart was announced. The bookseller called it quits on the Nook color line, giving the reins to third-party manufacturers. It dumped, then reconnected with its Nook color tablet line, but was it too little too late for shoppers?ĭespite valiant efforts - offering a few good bookworm-friendly slates - then-new releases, like the Amazon Kindle Fire and Google Nexus 7, burst onto the tablet scene with hot-to-trot specs and hard to beat price points. A wise man once asked, why do people break up, then turn around and make up? Like many of us, Barnes & Noble learned this lesson the hard way.
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