"The battery life of this electronic paper book... seems a bit fierce? Look at the line at the bottom!"
"???"
At the reminder of this netizen, many people also noticed the line of small words directly below Stardust-Ink. Other manufacturers' small words are used for explanations, such as explaining a new concept.
Stardust Technology is completely different. Instead, they will hide some more important information in inconspicuous small print. This is the case now. The battery life of Stardust-Ink is directly mentioned in the small print:
"Under the premise of using it without backlight/micro backlight for 8 hours a day, the actual battery life of Stardust-Ink can reach 25 days. Under the premise of using it 24 hours a day, the actual battery life of Stardust-Ink can reach..."
"15 days!?"
"!real or fake?"
"Based on past experience, Stardust Technology never exaggerates when it comes to product promotion. The battery life of the Stardust 3+ I bought is the same as what was advertised at the Stardust press conference. No, it is longer!"
"That is to say, after we buy Stardust-Ink, the battery life may be longer than 20 days? And who reads books 24 hours a day? Let alone 24 hours, I can read 3 hours a day, which is considered good. "
"And it is also equipped with fast USB charging. According to the actual measured data of fast charging, the battery of Stardust-Ink will definitely not take more than two hours to fully charge, and it can be used for a month at a time..."
"Hi~ That's terrible!"
"And this is an ink screen! One of the features of the ink screen is eye protection! In layman's terms, looking at the ink screen is equivalent to reading a paper book directly. There is no blue light or strobing. Do you understand?"
"I'm more looking forward to the quality of Star Vision's ink screen, because the kindle e-reader I have has very poor clarity, the edges are wide, and the experience is really average..."
"But... the Stardust-ink design looks pretty good! The frame is narrow and the appearance is good. When closed, it really looks like an antique book! If the price is right, I will really be tempted."
"There is a key issue. Electronic paper books and electronic paper books... books are the key! No matter how good the hardware is, if you open it and see that there are no books? Then what are you playing with?"
"yes!"
It was only then that many people realized that the so-called electronic paper books could not be made in China. It was not a hardware problem at all. Even without Stardust Technology, other mobile phone manufacturers could easily make similar products.
The fundamental reason lies in "e-books". When consumers buy an e-reader with an ink screen, there are not many books to choose from in the bookstore. They have to download the electronic version themselves and then input 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 garbled characters appear. The steps are too cumbersome and the experience is extremely poor.
But how could Stardust Technology not think of the problems they could think of? With the current size and influence of Stardust Technology in the country, Chen Zifan single-handedly attracted major publishing houses.
And they also cooperated with Huaxin Bookstore. Of course, the premise is that Huaxin Bookstore has an independent APP. Chen Zifan also agreed. Even the APP was developed by Stardust Network, but it doesn't matter.
There is no conflict between Stardust Reading and Huaxin Bookstore. It just so happens that Stardust-Ink can also use Huaxin Bookstore’s existing influence to hype up the popularity, increase product visibility, and by the way, take over the e-book market as its own.
Because Chen Zifan never imagined that any brand in China could compete with Stardust Technology and have the software and hardware advantages of Stardust Technology. When the shipment volume of Stardust-Ink is large enough, the next step can be taken.
What Chen Zifan can't understand is that Huaxin Bookstore wants to transform into an e-book mall, but it doesn't want to allocate all its resources at once. It may also be considering that the current offline stores are widely distributed and is afraid of affecting sales.
However, physical bookstores are destined to become increasingly difficult to operate. The small bookstores that used to be everywhere will soon be overwhelmed by online shopping. Only a limited number of bookstores in a county or city can survive.
Chen Zifan won't care how to choose Huaxin Bookstore, but
Stardust Reading is completely different. When Stardust Reading was developed, the goal was to make electronic books, so the progress of the two is completely different.
Just wait and see when Huaxin Bookstore can adjust and invest more resources~
However, Chen Zifan believes that instead of Huaxin Bookstore choosing to go to all the trouble to develop the APP on its own, it is better to directly share resources and channels with Stardust Reading, and then Stardust Reading will share part of the profits according to a certain proportion.
What is this for now?
Are you afraid that the red flowers will not be complemented by the green leaves?
While discussing the issue of book resources, netizens in the Stardust community also created N resource sharing groups on KouKou to share electronic versions of various books. .
Actually it's not necessary at all.
Because after Stardust Technology exposed the product poster and part of the configuration information of Stardust-Ink, only two hours later, the official account of Stardust Technology released another announcement, which was about Stardust Reading and Huaxin Bookstore. Yes, the amount of information is very large.
As soon as the announcement came out, countless netizens were stunned:
"Stardust-Ink Painting will open two book channels, Stardust Reading and Huaxin Bookstore, at the same time? Stardust Reading's partner publishers have...fuck! So many? Damn it! Almost all well-known publishers have them!"
"Are there any foreign publishing houses?"
"There are more than 3 million electronic books in formal channels? Is Stardust Technology so rich? With so many electronic books, how should the copyright fees be calculated?"
Copyright fee?
Chen Zifan said he didn’t know what the copyright fee was. Please, Stardust Technology has opened up a new way for them to make money. Asked if Stardust Technology wants the copyright fee?
Did Stardust Technology charge too little?
Every time a book is sold in Stardust-Ink and Stardust Reading, Stardust Technology will be given a certain percentage of the share. With this part of the profit, the selling price of Stardust-Ink will be compressed to a level close to cost.
Since they are regular books, they naturally have to be charged. One of the advantages of electronic books is their low price. The most expensive electronic books in Stardust Reading are less than a quarter of the price of physical books.
The lowest one can even be purchased for only 1.99. Of course, Stardust Reading will also provide many free books. These free books are all well-known classics, and some are available in both Chinese and foreign versions.
Stardust Reading has its own set of strict standards when formulating its price system. The pricing at Huaxin Bookstore is similar, but relatively speaking, their electronic books are more expensive than Stardust Reading.
The choice depends on the consumer.
Of course, no matter what the specific relationship between Stardust Reading and Huaxin Bookstore is, it is not important to consumers. They only care about what they can get, and that is exactly what the Stardust Marketing Department does.
I heard that you are confused about choosing products?
No need for Stardust-Ink?
If there is no demand, create demand! The Stardust Marketing Department cannot guarantee other things, but they are professional at piecing together the pie. After the announcement of Stardust Technology came out, there were all kinds of soft articles and video promotions.
There is also the "subtle" marketing that they are best at, such as letting Stardust and Ink appear in popular TV series, movies, and animations, and letting Stardust and Ink appear in various activities.
After various operations, many people will think that they have a need for electronic paper books. After all, living in this society, everyone wants to improve themselves, and reading and fitness are the two easiest channels.
Stardust-Ink Painting meets their needs. In addition, Stardust-Ink Painting is indeed of high quality, light weight and has good texture. Buying a copy is equivalent to buying a bookstore directly home. It is really cost-effective.
Although reading is indeed a painful thing in most cases, if you don’t want to read, you can sit by the window with Stardust and Ink and pose, take two photos and post them in animated costumes!
Who says you have to study?
But this behavior is not recommended...
In order to pave the way for the product, Stardust Reading was directly put on the Stardust app the day after the announcement, and was placed on other companies’
This is a non-starter as they are also worried about bad feedback.
In Stardust Technology, there is no similar statement at all. For no other reason than two words:
confidence!
In fact, there was the Stardust Reading APP before, and it was a native APP of Stardust OS, but the usage rate by users was not high. Now Stardust Reading is equivalent to a major update, and the overall changes are very big.
Stardust Reading lived up to its trust. With the vigorous promotion of Stardust Marketing Department, the number of downloads exceeded 6 million times that day. Many people wanted to see what it was like, and they were shocked at first sight.
It’s not that Stardust Reading has any special functions, but Stardust Reading is a very comfortable reading software from the inside out. Even the application icons and opening animations have been specially processed.
Not to mention the layout inside the app, it still maintains the high level that Stardust Network has always done when developing apps. It is simple but not simple. The bookshelf, library, classification details, and personal homepage are all very well done.
Including free books, many apps will make free books look cheap. However, Stardust Reading does not give people this feeling at all. The specifications look the same whether they are free or paid.
Open one of the books at random, and Stardust Reading will also optimize the font size and layout according to the current user's system settings. The animation when turning pages will make people feel happy from the heart. This is the most difficult thing to do.
Various functions during reading, such as paragraph annotation, font settings, etc. are all simple and easy to use. Even a 70-year-old grandmother can understand all the functions and how to use them within five minutes.
And as a reading software that has nothing to do with commercial nature, it only needs to provide the most important reading functions, so that users do not need to set anything in the default state, and can just click on it to read.
It’s best not to have any fancy features, including VIP. If one day you need VIP to read a world famous book... wouldn’t it be too magical?
Stardust-Ink Painting is the beginning of Chen Zifan's new goal. Naturally, he has to lay a good foundation at the beginning. However, because Stardust Reading is so easy to use, some users are not interested in buying electronic paper books:
"What kind of e-book do you want to buy?"
"The data read by Stardust are all interoperable! I just experimented and the progress of reading on the mobile phone can be directly continued on the tablet! And the reading experience on the tablet is also very good! It's big and exciting!"
"I have a Stardust Tablet too!"
"I tried it just now, and it's true! Why buy e-books now? Isn't the next Stardust reading going to be over? If you are really self-disciplined, you don't need to buy e-books!"
"You can't say that. Stardust-Ink has a long battery life and a single function, but it can make people concentrate. If it were a mobile phone... I might not be able to help but switch to the background and change the game after reading for a few minutes."
"It really is…"
Netizens participating in the discussion in the Stardust community are still focused on the e-book product "itself". Little do they know that Chen Zifan already wants to replace most physical books with e-books, but the process may be difficult and long.
Starting from the new versions of Stardust 3 and Stardust 3+, to the drone Stardust-Margin, and now to the electronic paper book Stardust-Ink, Stardust Technology has exposed a total of four new products, but this is also just the beginning. .
However, the remaining 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 launch.
After entering May, even if Stardust Technology does not reveal new products, other manufacturers do not dare to act rashly, including some car manufacturers. They are all waiting for the Stardust conference to be over first.
If Stardust Technology suddenly comes up with something and takes away all the popularity, wouldn't they have nowhere to cry? In fact, there are really none...except for Stardust-Chenji, there are only regular updates.
Even so, major manufacturers dare not take a gamble. It is better to wait until Stardust Technology's limelight has passed before they appear again. Anyway, the popularity of this thing drops very quickly, and it is difficult for no matter how good the product is to maintain its popularity.
Stardust Technology is also working hard
During preparations for the drum ground, Xinghai Stadium was directly closed twenty days before the press conference. After all, it had been open for free for a whole year, so it was time to use it for yourself.
Regarding this point, the citizens of Haicheng City have nothing to say. At most, the lack of a stadium with a good environment and diligent maintenance by the staff will affect exercise, but who told it to be built by Stardust Technology?
Look at other stadiums, which ones are usually not tied up with big iron chains? Where will it be open to the public?
Just looking at the scene in front of me...
Many citizens began to have random thoughts:
"If I had a drone, wouldn't I be able to fly directly over the stadium to see what's going on inside? That's how drones should be used!"
what? It's unethical to peek into privacy!
Fortunately, the drone has not yet been launched. After the press conference is over, once the product is launched, Chen Zifan will probably spend a lot of energy to popularize common sense about drones.
Fifteen days before the press conference, Stardust’s official website once again opened the auditorium reservation channel. Tickets are free, but whether you can grab them is another matter.
