[AdoroBookWorks]

Hello
We're a new publisher and very interested in electronic publishing for several reasons. It's "green". It reduces production costs (and more annoying lately, transportation costs) to virtually zero. It's fast.

We've been looking at the bewildering array of formats and readers and think a major reason people don't lke them as well as books is that they are unlikeable. Don't get me started on Kindle (you pay double for a reader so you can have a monopolisitic wifi hookup in case you just have to have a book between visists to a computer).

We're looking into mobiles and phones very seriously. In Japan people read novels on phones and write novels for phones. If you take the bus to work, it's an easy way to read once you get used to it.

We REALLY like something that hasn't really hit yet, but need some numbers to bring prices down. The big problem with mobile readers is the screen... voila.. video glasses.
Some can be made translucent, so the reading is superimposed on what you;re looking at, I've seen them for one eye only.


We are concentrating on simple pdf documents initially. They are manuals which would be used when at the computer anyway, so it works well.
But we're keeping an eye open.

(Woops, I don't have enough posts to show this cool picture. Just try to imagine an ipod with futuristic glasses you use instead of a screen.