This is a Google translation of the ActuaLitte article. The original French article is here. Blockquotes omitted:
Exclusive: The information is still unofficial, since the introduction of this service will only be on October 21 next, when Focus on the Digital organized by the NIS. It will speak digital, for sure, but in the meantime, several elements have filtered …
Today, the functioning of the Amazon Kindle is simple: a camera linked to an ebookstore. Simple, but pretty damn restrictive, since between others, the ebook reader from Amazon will only play files in Amazon. EPub not so. However, this system has inspired Franaçs Bookeen ePagine and, since both have linked an agreement on the online bookstores and managed by ePagine Bookeen latest model, the Orizon.
Create an environment that Amazon, the French
The issue is simple: any equipment purchased in a physical store or online will be stamped with the name of the shop and when you launch the browser of Orizon, will open the page linked to the ebookstore the bookstore.
For example, if a consumer goes to Ferret north in a few days, will be sold when the ebook reader, he will buy his Orizon for 229 € and at the time of purchase, a little message will reach the servers that will resolve when Bookeen data from the device to the shop Ferret Northerly line. Managed by ePagine. Everything is for the best in the best of worlds.
Indeed, one side is the customer loyalty by connecting the camera to the store when the other is familiar to consumers this modus operandi is very close to that of Amazon. However, the method is still less rigid. Thus, customers purchasing a Orizon can always contact the customer service of ePagine to change the link between the device and the online store. Therefore, we can link its product to another ebookstore. It would not be possible, however, to perform the operation alone.
Vital partnerships
It will mean that the physical or online store sells the Bookeen reader, while the other hand, the bookstore will be managed by ePagine for all works. Even 1001libraires.com be built for this job is because finally ePagine partner.
And on the other hand, issues of personal data and their management are obviously wince. When Oyo are blocked on the online store Chapitre.com, or that the Sagem is blocked on the store FNAC, the data flows only between the machine and the ebookstore. If we can change on the fly links between libraries and Orizon ePagine, the question arises of where to store the information given above.
We should have more answers on this subject on Monday.
Finally, there is a problem throughout: Bookeen would need to open its own online bookstore, for reasons of reliability and image abroad. How do publishers – and by extension, the booksellers already online – take this initiative, it remains to be discovered ..
How are you gentlemen.
All your books are belong to us.
For great justice.
Someone set us up the book.
🙂 Sorry, couldm’t help myself.
But can anybody translate this??
“However, this system has inspired Franaçs Bookeen ePagine and, since both have linked an agreement on the online bookstores and managed by ePagine Bookeen latest model, the Orizon.”
“Indeed, one side is the customer loyalty by connecting the camera to the store when the other is familiar to consumers this modus operandi is very close to that of Amazon.”
I have no idea what this article was about ……… 🙁
My experience yesterday was exactly why I love my Kindle and find Apple pushing the iPad as a reading device ludicrous.
I was at my son’s marching band competition and there is about 10 minutes in between each band. When I checked my Android phone, I had to take my sunglasses off and shade the screen. With my Kindle, I could read comfortably in the sun with my sunglasses on, no matter how bright. And when the woman next to me asked me about it, it was clear that the $139 price for the Kindle 3 was possible with her budget, but there was no way she could afford the $499 and up iPad.