Awake Dream
I am tired.
Eyelids fall off;
now I'm awake,
lucid in the midst
of dream.
You are there,
but not yourself.
I am there,
but I have no eyelids.
Strange.
We are in love
with words,
and earthworms.
Shooting targets, large
Russian novels,
and icy lemonade.
We can't wake up.
Because you are yourself
and I am not.
I have no eyelids.
I'm not thrilled with the title - comments are always welcome
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On Newsarama.com they had an interesting article about the new Amazon Kindle 2 and its effect on the comic book market. Check out the article here.
As an avid comic book reading, anything regarding the comic book market is of interest to me. Vaneta Rogers provides some interesting facts towards the effect that comic books, very soon, will mostly be digital and readers will access them on some sort of device, like the Kindle. Here are my thoughts -
1. Has anyone actually seen someone with a Kindle? I have seen people - famous people, like Neil Gaiman, with them in online videos. But I have never seen someone with a kindle in real life. I do agree that comic book readers on an I-Phone or an I-Pod Touch is not that far off, but on a kindle?
2. Comic books have become a small niche market and most fans I know collect comic books because they like the stories. But those same fans also state the fact that they like having a physical copy of the book - something tangible that they can hold in their hands while they are reading. For many the collecting aspect of the hobby is even more important than the reading/good stories aspect of the hobby. This comes up in floppies (monthlies) versus trade paper back (collected editions) debates all the time. Many comic book fans like buying/collecting the floppies.
3. The kindle is in black and white. While some comic books are in black and white, and some black and white comics are very good (Echo by Terry Moore; Bone and RASL by Jeff Smith); most comics are in color.
I wouldn't worry too much about the kindle and its ruining the comic book market
3 comments:
I don't think the kindle will threaten anything until it becomes affordable. I think it's a great solution for school textbooks, but it just isn't cost effective. If people aren't buying $20 books, they aren't going to buy a $349 kindle and then $10 books. I love the idea, but I just can't spend that money.
Have you ever seen someone with one?
I’ve seen people shaving and brushing their teeth while driving, but I haven’t seen anyone using a Kindle.
I see in Wikipedia that “to promote the new Kindle [made available Feb. 23, 2009, at $359], author Stephen King has written a novella called UR, which is available exclusively as a Kindle download.”
word verification: “mamma”
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