Coming directly from Holland here’s an idea that could kill all those electronic readers and eInk technologies & stuff the “Dwarsliggers” or “Librinos” as they call them in Spain. Ok ok, they certainly won’t kill any Kindles or Nooks, but, it’s a good initiative editorials are using to survive while adapting to the new world…
Marisa Tonezzer from Ediciones B (a fairly well known editorial in Spain and Latin America) went to the Turin Book fair last June and discovered these little things that are having quite a big success in Holland, a simple & practical idea that they’ve now brought to Spain under the name of “Librinos”.
Books that reduce the size of the traditional editions by 2/3…
Horizontal format compressing the same in 145grams and 8x12cm and coming @ 10€. Buy it, or moving to the next eReader?
For those defenders of the physical feeling a real book can give, these come in handy (I’m still doubting how I feel about this), for the eBook store owners and eBook manufacturers (oh btw! Google just launched their xtimes delayed eBook store 2 days ago), this is just more make-up to the dying concept of traditional books.