Holiday Linktopia week (with the help of Ron Page) and we stop in for an update on the future of digital reading, along with the same problem game makers and authors face and end up at one of the largest book tables in the country.
One of the key breakthroughs in the digital format will be a drop in the cost of dedicated electronic readers from $400 to less than $100, and good software that can turn a laptop or a mobile phone into a credible reader. Russell P. Reeder, CEO of LibreDigital, an Austin (Tex.) company that digitizes published content, envisions the price point of readers dropping—possibly even to free, if users buys a subscription contract—within the next five years. More on that story here.
It all comes down to people knowing about your product.
“...I was in a cafe in San Francisco Sunday and I saw a girl playing a Facebook game on a computer. By girl, I mean a college-aged woman, the core demographic of social networks.
The game she was playing was Twirl, an SGN game. I asked her how she discovered the game.”
Sound like someone trying to find your book? Games and books face some of the same issues. Continue reading here.
They don’t house hundreds of thousands of books, but they move a lot of the ones they do carry.
Their book buyers are information maniacs. They read book reviews daily, scour hot tips, read lots of books and even stand near the book tables to hear what members have to say.
The story behind the buyers is here.
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