Chapter 165: Twin Book City
"The battery life of this e-paper book... Seems a little fierce, huh? Look at the bottom line!"
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Under the reminder of this netizen, many people also noticed the small print directly below Stardust-Ink, and the small print of other manufacturers is used to explain notes, such as explaining a new concept.
Stardust Technology is completely different, they will hide some more important information in the inconspicuous small print, and now this is the case, the small print directly mentions the endurance of Stardust-Ink:
"Under the premise of using no backlight/micro backlight for 8 hours a day, the battery life of Stardust-Ink can reach 25 days, and under the premise of using it for 24 hours a day, the battery life of Stardust-Ink can be measured to..."
"15 days!?"
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"According to past experience, Stardust Technology has never exaggerated in product promotion, and the battery life level of Stardust 3+ I bought is the same as that advertised at the Stardust press conference, no, it is longer!"
"That is, after we buy Stardust-Ink, it is possible that the battery life level will be longer than 20 days? And who reads 24 hours a day? Not to mention 24 hours, I can watch 3 hours a day."
"And it is also equipped with God-speed USB fast charging, according to the measured data of God-speed fast charging, the battery full time of Stardust-Ink will definitely not exceed two hours, and then it can be used for a month at a time..."
"Shh~ That's terrible!"
"And it's an ink screen! One of the characteristics of the ink screen is eye protection! In plain terms, looking at the ink screen is equivalent to reading a paper book directly, no blue light, no strobe, understand?"
"I'm looking forward to the level of the ink screen of Star Vision, because the Kindle e-reader in my hand has poor definition, the side is wide, and the experience is really average..."
"But... The design of Stardust-Ink looks good! With a narrow frame and a high appearance, it really looks like an antique book when it closes! If the price is right, I'll really be a little tempted."
"There is a key problem, e-paper books, e-paper books... Books are the key! No matter how good the hardware is, open it and take a look, there is no book? So what's going on?"
"That's right!"
Many people have just reacted that the so-called e-paper books can't be done in China, it's not a hardware problem at all, even if there is no Stardust Technology, other mobile phone manufacturers can easily make similar products.
The fundamental reason is still on the "e-book", consumers buy back an ink-screen e-reader, but there are not many books to choose from in the bookstore, and they have to download the electronic version by themselves and then enter it into the device.
The most important thing is that the electronic version of the input is not necessarily compatible with the product, and sometimes there will be garbled characters or something, the steps are too cumbersome, and the experience is very poor.
But the question they can think of, how could Stardust Technology not think of it? With the current volume and influence of Stardust Technology in China, Chen Zifan was stunned to pull the major publishing houses over with his own strength.
And also cooperated with Huaxin Bookstore, of course, the premise is that Huaxin Bookstore must have an independent APP, Chen Zifan also agreed, even the APP is developed by Stardust Network, but it doesn't matter.
There is no conflict between Xingchen Reading and Huaxin Bookstore, and it just so happens that Xingchen-Ink can also use the existing influence of Huaxin Bookstore to hype up the popularity, enhance the popularity of the product, and by the way, take the e-paper book market as its own.
Because Chen Zifan couldn't imagine that there would be any brand in Huaxia that could compete with Stardust Technology, and that he could have the software and hardware advantages of Stardust Technology, and when the shipments of Stardust-Ink were large enough, he would be able to take the next step.
What Chen Zifan can't understand is that Huaxin Bookstore not only wants to transform into an e-book city, but also doesn't want to take out all its resources at once, probably considering the current wide distribution of offline stores, for fear of affecting sales.
However, brick-and-mortar bookstores are destined to become more and more difficult to do, and it will not be long before the small bookstores that used to be everywhere will be washed away by online shopping, and only a limited number of bookstores will survive in a county or city.
How to choose Huaxin Bookstore, Chen Zifan will not care, but
Stardust Reading is completely different, Stardust Reading has been developing from the time it was developed, and its goal was to make an electronic version of the book, so the progress of the two is completely different.
It depends on when Huaxin Bookstore can adjust and invest more resources into it~
However, Chen Zifan believes that instead of choosing to go to great lengths to build its own APP, Huaxin Bookstore should directly share resources and channels with Xingchen Reading, and then Xingchen Reading will share part of the profits according to a certain percentage.
Now what's going on?
Are you afraid that the safflower will not be set off by green leaves?
While discussing the issue of book resources, netizens in the Stardust community also created N resource sharing groups in the buckle to share the electronic versions of various books.
Actually, it's not necessary at all.
Because after Stardust Technology exposed the product poster and some configuration information of Stardust-Ink, only two hours later, the official account of Stardust Technology released an announcement again, the content is about Stardust Reading and Huaxin Bookstore, and the amount of information is very large.
As soon as the announcement came out, countless netizens were stupid:
"Stardust-Ink will open two book channels at the same time: Stardust Reading and Huaxin Bookstore? Stardust Reading's partner publishing houses have... it! So much? Damn! Almost all of the well-known publishing houses are available!"
"And foreign publishers?"
"More than 3 million e-books are available through formal channels? Is Stardust Technology so rich? With so many electronic books, how should the copyright fee be calculated?"
Royalties?
Chen Zifan said that he didn't know what the copyright fee was, please, Stardust Technology opened a new way for them to make money, and asked Stardust Technology for copyright fees?
Is it that Stardust Technology collects too little money?
For every book sold in Stardust-Ink and Stardust Reading, a certain percentage of Stardust Technology will be given a certain percentage of the profits, and the price of Stardust-Ink will be compressed to a level close to the cost.
Since it is a regular book, it is naturally charged, and one of the advantages of electronic books is that the price is low, and the price of the electronic version of the book in Stardust Reading is not more than a quarter of the price of the physical book.
The lowest one can even be bought for only 1.99, of course, Stardust Reading will also provide a lot of free books, which are all well-known classics, and some also provide Chinese and foreign versions.
Stardust Reading has its own set of strict standards when formulating the price system, and Huaxin Bookstore has similar pricing, but their electronic books are relatively more expensive than Stardust Reading.
How to choose depends on the consumer.
Of course, no matter what the specific relationship between Stardust Reading and Huaxin Bookstore is, it doesn't matter to consumers, they only care about what they can get, and it just so happens that Stardust Marketing Department does this.
I heard that you are confused about choosing a product?
Don't have a demand for Stardust-Ink?
If there is no demand, then create demand! The Stardust Marketing Department doesn't dare to guarantee anything else, but they are professional in painting pies, and after the announcement of Stardust Technology came out, there were all kinds of advertorials and video promotions.
There is also the "subtle" marketing they are best at, such as letting Stardust-Ink appear in popular TV series, movies, and animation, and for example, letting Stardust-Ink appear in various activities.
After all, living in this society, everyone wants to improve themselves, and reading and fitness are the two easiest channels.
Stardust-ink meets their needs, plus the level of stardust-ink is really high, light weight, good texture, buying a copy is equivalent to buying a bookstore to go home, and it is really cost-effective.
Although reading a book is indeed a painful thing in most cases, if you don't want to read, you can sit by the window with stardust-ink and pose, take two photos and post a dynamic outfit!
Who says you have to study?
It's just not recommended...
In order to pave the way for the product, Stardust Reading was directly put on the shelves of Stardust applications the day after the announcement and placed in other companies
This is not possible because they are also worried about bad feedback.
In Stardust Technology, there is no similar statement at all, for no other reason, just two words:
Assertive!
In fact, there was also Stardust Reading APP before, and it was still the native APP of Stardust OS, but the user's usage rate was not high, and now Stardust Reading is equivalent to a big update, and the overall change is very big.
Stardust reading also lived up to the trust, under the vigorous publicity of the Stardust Marketing Department, the number of downloads on the day exceeded 6 million, and many people wanted to see how it was, and they were shocked when they saw it.
It's not that Stardust Reading has any special functions, but Stardust Reading is a very comfortable reading software from the inside out, and even the application icons and opening animations have been specially processed.
Not to mention the layout in the application, it still continues the consistent high level of Stardust Network when developing APP, simple and not simple, bookshelves, book libraries, classification details, and personal homepages are all very good.
Including free books, many apps will make free books a sense of cheapness, but Stardust Reading does not give people this feeling at all, whether it is free or paid, the specifications look the same.
Open one of them casually, Stardust Reading will also optimize the font size and layout according to the current user's system settings, and the animation when turning the page will make people feel happy from the heart, which is the most difficult to do.
The various functions when reading, such as paragraph annotation, font settings, etc., are easy to use, even if you ask a 70-year-old grandmother to use it, you can understand all the functions and how to use them in five minutes.
And as a reading software that is not compatible with the commercial nature, just do the most important reading function well, so that users don't need to set anything in the default state, just click on it to watch.
It's best not to have bells and whistles, including VIP, if one day you have to watch a world famous book, you have to VIP... Isn't it too magical?
As the beginning of Chen Zifan's new goal, Stardust-Ink naturally has to lay a good foundation at the beginning, but because Stardust is too easy to read, some users are not interested in buying e-paper books:
"What kind of e-paper books do you buy?"
"The data that Stardust reads is all interconnected! I experimented just now, and the progress of reading on the mobile phone can be continued directly on the tablet! And the reading experience on the tablet is also very good! Big and cool!"
"I have a stardust tablet too!"
"I tried it just now, and it's true! Why do you still buy e-paper books? Isn't the next Stardust reading over? You don't need to buy e-paper books if you are really self-disciplined!"
"I can't say that, Stardust-Ink has a long battery life and a single function, but it can make people concentrate, if the phone ... I probably didn't read the book for a few minutes before I couldn't resist switching backstage games."
"It'sā"
The netizens who participated in the discussion in the Stardust community are still staying on the "itself" of the e-paper book product, but they don't know that Chen Zifan has already wanted to replace most of the physical books through e-paper books, but the process may be difficult and long.
Starting from the new version of Stardust 3 and Stardust 3+, to the drone Stardust-Marginal, and then to the current e-paper book Stardust-Ink, Stardust Technology has exposed a total of four new products, but this is also just the beginning.
However, the rest of the new products will not be exposed so easily, especially Stardust Technology's first special model, Stardust-Chenji, according to Chen Zifan's plan, it will not be exposed even the day before the press conference.
After entering May, even if Stardust Technology does not expose new products, other manufacturers do not dare to act rashly, and even some automobile manufacturers do not dare to act lightly, and they are waiting for the Stardust press conference to end first.
In case Stardust Technology suddenly comes up with something and robs all the heat, then won't they have a place to cry? Actually, no... Except for Stardust-Tatsuji, there are only regular updates left.
Even so, the major manufacturers don't dare to bet, it's better to wait for the limelight of Stardust Technology to pass, and then they will appear, anyway, the popularity of this thing drops quickly, and it is difficult for the best products to maintain the heat all the time.
Stardust Technology is also in full swing
In the process of preparation, twenty days before the start of the press conference, Xinghai Stadium directly entered the closure, after all, it was open for free for a whole year, and it should be used by itself.
For this, the citizens of Haicheng City have nothing to say, at most, there is one less stadium with a good environment, staff maintenance and diligence, which will affect the exercise, but who let this be covered by Stardust Technology?
Look at the other stadiums, which one is not usually tied up with a big iron chain? Where will it be open to the public?
Just looking at the scene in front of me...
Quite a few members of the public began to have the following ideas:
"If I had a drone, wouldn't I be able to fly right above the stadium and see what's going on inside? That's how drones should be used!"
Why? Voyeurism is immoral!
Thanks to the fact that the drone has not yet been listed, when the press conference is over and the product is on the market, Chen Zifan estimates that he will have to spend a lot of energy to popularize the common sense of drones.
Fifteen days before the start of the press conference, the official website of Stardust once again opened the audience seat reservation channel, and the tickets are free, but whether you can grab them is another matter.