Author: Xing···Chen

"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!?"

"Woc! Is it 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.

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"And it is also equipped with fast USB charging. According to the actual measured data of fast charging, the charging time of Stardust-Ink's battery will definitely not exceed two hours, and it can be used for a month at a time..."

"Hiss~ 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, without blue light or flicker. 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, wide edges, and a really mediocre experience..."

"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 problem. 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!"

Many people then 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 root cause is still related to "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 Stardust Technology’s current size and influence in the country, Chen Zifan single-handedly brought over major publishing houses.

And we 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 was developed by Stardust Network, but it doesn't matter.

Stardust Reading does not conflict with 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 electronic paper 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 will not care about the choice of Huaxin Bookstore, but Stardust Reading is completely different. When Stardust Reading was developed, the goal was to produce 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 in KouKou to share electronic versions of various books.

In fact, 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 an announcement again, the content was exactly about Stardust Reading, Huaxin Bookstore

, the amount of information is very large.

As soon as the announcement came out, countless netizens were stunned:

"Stardust-Ink will open two book channels, Stardust Reading and Huaxin Bookstore, at the same time? The cooperative publishing houses of Stardust Reading have...fuck! So many? Damn it! Almost all well-known publishing houses!"

"And there are 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. Does Stardust Technology want 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 it is a regular book, it naturally has to be charged. One of the advantages of electronic books is their low price. The most expensive electronic books in Stardust Reading are not more 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 also 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 doesn’t matter to consumers. They only care about what they can get, and that’s 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, then create it! Stardust Marketing Department cannot guarantee anything else, but they are professional at painting 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 satisfies their needs. In addition, Stardust-Ink Painting is indeed of high quality, light weight, and has good texture. Buying one is equivalent to buying a bookstore directly home, so 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 and pose with Stardust and Ink, take two photos and post it as an animated B!

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. This is impossible for other companies because they are also worried about poor feedback.

In Stardust Technology, there is no similar statement at all. For no other reason than two words:

confidence!

In fact, there was also 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 when they saw it.

It’s not that Stardust Reading has any special features, 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 application, it still maintains the high level that Stardust Network has always used when developing APPs, which 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 by default, and can just click on it to read it.

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 should I 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 is large and refreshing!"

"I have a Stardust Tablet too!"

"I tried it just now, and it's really true! Why buy e-books now? Isn't it going to be over for Stardust next time? 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 electronic paper book product "itself". Little do they know that Chen Zifan already wants to replace most physical books with electronic paper 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.

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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.

What if Stardust Technology suddenly comes up with something and takes away all the popularity, then wouldn’t they have nowhere to cry? In fact, there really isn’t...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 making intensive preparations. Twenty days before the launch of the press conference, Xinghai Stadium was directly closed. After all, it has been open for free for a whole year, so it is 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 not usually tied up with big iron chains? Which ones are 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!"

Why? It's unethical to peek into privacy!

Fortunately, the drone has not yet been launched on the market. 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.

The moral integrity is being destroyed. Please wait.

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