From Wired: Singularity Proponent Ray Kurzweil Reinvents the Book, Again
BLIO! Yet another “me too” eBook Reader wants to be Adobe. I must stifle my enthusiasm.
So what does it do?
approaches e-reading from a completely different angle than the current E Ink-based devices like the Amazon Kindle, Barnes & Noble Nook and Sony Reader
Well, those are actual pieces of eBook reading hardware. Are you selling hardware? No, so why even bring those up? Are you saying your magic software will turn eInk into color screens?
it is a “platform” that could run on any device
Whoopi ding dang doo, that is what Adobe Digital Editions tries to do with it’s flash based reader. Unfortunately only full computers really run that right now. Not eBook Readers. What makes this so special from PDF with a web browser?
the software offers a full color experience
Well, so does Adobe Digital Editions or opening a PDF on most Operating Systems when you use it on a color screen on an actual computer you idiot.
Blio actually lays out the “pages” as they would be seen on paper, with typography and illustrations copied across.
So does PDF! Which is open source and everyone already uses PDF which can be read on any Operating System on the market. So what? Are you going to give away your format for free? NO!
It also supports video and animation.
What does video and animation have to do with reading? If I want video and animation that’s already supported fully by iTunes and Apple using basic HTML and CSS like a web browser which are both open source. Are you going to give away your format for free? NO!
“We can take a PDF and an audio book and merge the two to get a combination such that you can hear the audio book and see the words highlighted on the PDF at the same time,”
So basically you admit that PDF does all this already and all you want to do is wrap it’s design with your special video/animation/DRM craptastic idea. I get the feeling you are not going very far with this.
“People don’t want an extra piece of hardware,” says Kurzweil. “They want to take one device and do everything with it and they want color screens.”
But.. You are not selling that hardware you idiot. You are selling software (You are not even providing a delivery service like Fictionwise with eReader just the software.) that does not do anything special than most web browsers since most hardware platforms use Operating Systems that do all this already.
Oh, that makes sense! Maybe they can also try to sell some more Windows 7 to the netbook crowd who could care less and are going to run Android which is free anyway.
Another scam from the scammers kids. Anyone who invests in this idea is a BLIthering idiOt.
Tags: Common Sense
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[...] was running Kindle for PC and the other demo they did was running BLIO which I have already talked about. That’s right folks that HP Slate was not running Microsoft [...]
Link | January 7th, 2010 at 8:02 am