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I have to admit, this has my attention. I think that if I could get some Planet Stories on this I would buy it and might get a Planet Stories subscription.
I believe Erik has said before that Paizo doesn't have the electronic distribution rights to any of the books that have yet been released through the Planet Stories line. I assume that's something they could get, at least for some of the books, but that doing so would require renegotiation and additional costs that would probably be prohibitive from releasing a line of digital releases.
That said, it's got my attention, too. I'd want to see how well Paizo pdfs work on the small screen, though. It'd be awesome to use at the gaming table, what with the color book selector screen and all, but if the print were too small or the load time with all the graphics too long, I'd just stick with my laptop.
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I have to admit, this has my attention. I think that if I could get some Planet Stories on this I would buy it and might get a Planet Stories subscription.I believe Erik has said before that Paizo doesn't have the electronic distribution rights to any of the books that have yet been released through the Planet Stories line. I assume that's something they could get, at least for some of the books, but that doing so would require renegotiation and additional costs that would probably be prohibitive from releasing a line of digital releases.
That said, it's got my attention, too. I'd want to see how well Paizo pdfs work on the small screen, though. It'd be awesome to use at the gaming table, what with the color book selector screen and all, but if the print were too small or the load time with all the graphics too long, I'd just stick with my laptop.
Well if it is too costly, then it's just to bad for me. I keep wanting to get many of these books, but I find that holding on to a book to a little to hard for me. Belive it or not, a screen is easier for me to read many times rather than a page. I guess I'm just wierd and in the minority.
I have to say I wonder about the game PDFs too. I hope someone does a kind of review here. I would have to think that font size could be controled my the device.
it looks promising but I'm gonna hold off for at least another year till color features are added and the price drops to around a hundred bucks. I just cant see paying more than that, maybe I'm cheap but I know what I can afford and 300 aint it. As far as gameing books I'm still waiting until the pdf to print kiosks come out and then load up on 2nd and outta print 3rd ed stuff.
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Director of Brand Strategy
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Well if it is too costly, then it's just to bad for me. I keep wanting to get many of these books, but I find that holding on to a book to a little to hard for me. Belive it or not, a screen is easier for me to read many times rather than a page. I guess I'm just wierd and in the minority.
Mass adoption of digital readers not only has the hurdle of overcoming people's preferences to have a book in their hands, but also the cost of the reader itself. I know many people who would love to get a Kindle or Sony Reader or whatever who haven't simply because when faced with a $250 purchase (that includes no books) or several $8-$30 purchases of physical books, they go with the physical books every time. Until more people have Kindles and their ilk, digital publishing will always be a fringe market, at least for mainstream publishing.
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Well if it is too costly, then it's just to bad for me. I keep wanting to get many of these books, but I find that holding on to a book to a little to hard for me. Belive it or not, a screen is easier for me to read many times rather than a page. I guess I'm just wierd and in the minority.Mass adoption of digital readers not only has the hurdle of overcoming people's preferences to have a book in their hands, but also the cost of the reader itself. I know many people who would love to get a Kindle or Sony Reader or whatever who haven't simply because when faced with a $250 purchase (that includes no books) or several $8-$30 purchases of physical books, they go with the physical books every time. Until more people have Kindles and their ilk, digital publishing will always be a fringe market, at least for mainstream publishing.
There is no such thing as a fringe market for digital publishing. Content is content.
Given that the largest distributers of printed materials have seen the writing on the wall shows how physical books will be had less and less from brick and mortar stores and more and more through online purchases in both physical and digital.
Any Nook owners out there want to weigh in? I'm eyeballing this, as the wife keeps saying this is a big birthday year.
I'd especially like to hear how pdfs work on it, since that seems to be something I can't find out in the store.