From LuluxPress:
Link to the rest at LuluxPress
PG wasn’t familiar with this site and hadn’t looked at Lulu for a very long time.
PG has no reason to question the honesty of either Lulu or LuluxPress, but, as always, read the terms of use, terms & conditions, etc., etc. before, not after, you use either service. Ditto for KDP, which reminds PG that he needs to review KDP for any changes, additions or deletions.
This is off topic. But Amazon has made a version of the Kindle I’ve been waiting for:
The Kindle Scribe
If it works as advertised, it makes note-taking and editing easier on the Kindle. Have a draft you need to proofread? This can help, perhaps. I don’t normally early-adapt, but the Scribe looks like a worthwhile exception …
Be aware that you do not draw directly onto a book, as far as I know – you draw in a pop-up window that is tied to your location in the book. I don’t know the existence of that content shows when the pop-up window is closed, but it’s not the same as just scribbling in the margins.
The annotations are supposed to travel back to MS WORD on PC as stickies, sometime next year.
https://www.windowscentral.com/hardware/tablets/amazons-weird-new-kindle-lets-you-ink-onto-microsoft-word-documents
Yet, the feature images and video at Amazon show the ink on the document as well a pop up window.
It may be tbat there is more than one way to annotate a document but only one of those will round trip. A video review is probably needed to be certain of what it can do and how it works.
I believe you can draw directly on PDF documents, but not on Kindle books.
You make the idea sound attractive for certain special cases for writers but I’m not sure of its appeal to readers. Personally, the only annotations I make to Kindle titles are when I note typos (with the intention – in practice not normally acted upon – of telling the author about them). This may be a carry over from paper books where I had too much respect for the physical object to actually write on it (save for a few maths text books where error correction of a proof saved time and confusion when rereading).
The target audience is students and business folk.
Also, non fiction and large text readers.
There has long been a steady stream of similar eink android “tablets” available on the Amazon store, with and without stylus support so they have a good idea of the market size.
https://www.amazon.com/Onyx-Boox-Lomonosov-eReader-Carta/dp/B096N1RX6S/ref=sr_1_3?crid=WSLGYYLB9MR2&keywords=eink+tablet+onyx&qid=1664536720&qu=eyJxc2MiOiIyLjAzIiwicXNhIjoiMC4wMCIsInFzcCI6IjAuMDAifQ%3D%3D&sprefix=eink+tablet%2Caps%2C200&sr=8-3
There are similar lower resolution color devices.
As is, I might get one for my mother if tbe weight is low enough. Not because of tbe stylus but for the size/resolution/price combination as a large font reader.
It may be a niche device but there’s profit in niches, too.
On the actual subject of the post, PG says he has not looked at Lulu for some time. I’ve not looked since their computer problems got so bad that an acquaintance who writes niche wargaming books had to give up on Lulu and switch to KDP. Does anyone know whether their problems have been fully resolved?