It looks good as a style. I like that. I think the style fits the audience. But I am a sucky graphic designer.
However it's not immediately known that what you offer is a book (at least in the medium of a book).
If people visit the page without a context, they might not expect a book at the end of the page. You prepared us here that the page is about a book, but will that be the case with everyone visiting it?
You can do a little quick research to see if random people get what is this about.
https://usabilityhub.com/ provides 5 seconds tests - people see the page for 5 sec and they answer a simple question, for example - "what is this page about" or something like that. The 5 sec tests are pretty cheap. Last time used that site you could trade making 1 test for someone else for 1 participant for your test.
There are too many tools. One can drown in tools and still not do anything.
We try to keep as simple as possible, until it is not enough. Then we escalate the tool, but only IF experience proves we work less efficient without it.
Long term probably. I've read tents of studies on the topic and books on similar topic. Junk food has long term effects, non of which are good. They can affect various things, some of which, directly or indirectly, affect higher order thinking, levels of energy, mood, activity and etc.
Also *x increased chance of various debilitating diseases.
Not to sound like a crazy health nut - there are two stupendous studies on the citizens of Okinawa (The Okinawa project) and China (The China study) that leave little doubt on the long term effects of junk foods.
Unfortunately there is a psychological barrier that people must pass before having the understanding of their lack of experience and the need to face reality.
Only informing them about this, in some cases, is not enough.
It would really be well if people realized their bias, but they rarely do.
I have no experience with this, but a few of my current colleagues have similar experience with their former manager.
He didn't fake it, but had unrealistic vision of how things are working irl, thus were hyping them constantly. Millions, correction, billions were just behind that corner.
At the end they faced disappointed and lack of congruency.
In terms of search engine services. Probably won't suffer much. Will be over bing. It gives satisfying results and is (still) not much saturated by ads.
Over google maps will be tougher as bing maps are not that much developer in this region.
G+, while I use it, it won't hurt me much at this point.
SEO - well, this will hit me a bit and our clients a lot. Not a SEO company, but a lot of the clients have some sort of white hat SEO.
Will use some business apps that we use for gmail for some of our domains.
On the rest, I have migrated to MS services, thus google won't hurt mail, calendars, tasks, cloud storage that much for me.
But this is highly hypothetical situation. The chances of google disappearing is lower than ... I don't know...countries collapsing.
$10k?
This is too much. You can train yourself to induce OOB experience (as lucid dreaming) and have experience in first hand. Without paying anything.
Depends on the idea. If the idea is based on real world data, strong feedback and statistics - then, why not.
Otherwise is a complete zero. I personally have ideas for 10 lifetimes of work and that is just the top which I don't scrape after a brief analysis.
As others said - ideas, in their initial states, rarely worth anything. Experience shapes idea into an unrecognisable state and even the right ideas, without the correct offering, may fail.
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Sometimes an idea can be worth a lot. Image a working company in a bottleneck situation on their concept. They have a problem that blocks their scalability. If you bring up an idea, that will fit their situation and be an elegant solution - they this can be worth a lot. But this requires a tremendous experience in the field.
- Omni 10 HP tablet (mid-class)
- Bluetooth KBD
- Pen
You can really do some work in various of places. I personally write a lot, thus it helps. Not to mention it can open all websites without a problem and if needed, supports desktop apps.
Drawback is the low visibility under direct sunlight.
This started into a realm I had some knowledge and ended into a realm with zero knowledge from my part.
I can't help with cracking the reader. Keep in mind, while it has a benefit of not reflecting sun light with a glare, it still is not 100% immune to it.
You can always try making some shade where you work. Bring some headphones and music, as some environments can be distracting and noisy.
Works for me.
Yet I also start with a lot of questions.
We've tried something similar with one of our sites for digital marketing advice. Yet, maybe because of our delivery, but we didn't provoke engagement.
also, we've had clients who wanted to know the payments so they can budget accordingly i.e. send them the invoices, but they might not be prepared to pay all 3 of them at once.
When I was younger and didn't had models of the world, my fist one was one of a workaholic - 10+ hours per day in the office; working weekdays. Everyone around me was following this model, so naturally, I thought the normal way is this. Thus was a financial audit company.
Then, I entered the other spectrum in a corporate structure company. Most of the people there didn't give much effort and just waited for the time to get to 5pm for then to leave home. The day was full with smoke breaks and coffee breaks.
When we (with friends) started a startup, 7 days a week was the norm. This quickly proved inefficient in the long term as people started resenting, not to mention long term thinking was missing and a lot of honest effort was a complete waste.
We're now into a normal work week model with the occasional up/down depending on the situation. But we got sufficient funding. Before we didn't and sometimes the pressure triggers a short-term mode where you want to grind as much as possible for the money-time-food you have available.
tl;dr - you are your own master and commander. You don't have to follow the "norm" but others may expect you to do so. In the end it's your choice.
@diego and @api summed up the benefits of a normal work time. Smart people value their rest. And, as you are probably aware - the best ideas usually come in the times when you are resting from work.
Free time has allowed me to get good at psychology, philosophy, sociology, marketing, critical thinking, martial arts, game design, have a decent fitness and endurance levels, social contacts with healthy people and so on resources, which I wound't have had of I was focusing only on work. Not to mention I would have probably go haywire.
Actually, without the knowledge of those fields, my overall suitability for business would be severely limited.
It looks good as a style. I like that. I think the style fits the audience. But I am a sucky graphic designer.
However it's not immediately known that what you offer is a book (at least in the medium of a book).
If people visit the page without a context, they might not expect a book at the end of the page. You prepared us here that the page is about a book, but will that be the case with everyone visiting it?
You can do a little quick research to see if random people get what is this about.
https://usabilityhub.com/ provides 5 seconds tests - people see the page for 5 sec and they answer a simple question, for example - "what is this page about" or something like that. The 5 sec tests are pretty cheap. Last time used that site you could trade making 1 test for someone else for 1 participant for your test.
10 people should be enough to spot patterns.