Sentences with phrase «about ebook adoption»

And there we were, holding the DBW vigil with Bishop Shatzkin; chanting BookRepublic numbers about ebook adoption with Brother Marco; beating our breasts with Friar Matteo:

They have asked this question, along with others about ebook adoption, library usage, and device ownership, in surveys over almost the whole ebook adoption cycle.

Optimism about ebook adoption in schools has run high for the last few years, but this study provides some interesting news.

Not exact matches

One of the early adoption markets for tablet use, K12 digital textbooks, and a thriving e-commerce site to offer ebooks was India, but recent reports have shown somewhat stagnant responses, which experts have attributed to a lack of reliable wifi and internet connectivity throughout the country, as well as concerns about posting credit card information on unreliable digital infrastructure.

For ebook reading consumers, we came across brand - new or limited edition devices from four different companies today, including Bookeen, Imcosys, Tolio, and txtr; txrt actually spoke at length about pending plans for a subscription - based reading service, highlighting several features that their platform will offer that the slow - to - adoption subscription reading market has lacked.

This mentality is in keeping with what the publishing industry has learned about teens and digital reading, namely that many prefer to keep their devices separate from their education, leading to what was once a slow adoption of ebooks for teen readers.

Due to constraints on textbook adoption, concerns about device compatibility, and questions as to where the funding for mobile devices will come from, public schools have been slower on the ebook uptake than colleges.

Again, O'Rielly's post is about as crystal clear as it gets, straight from the CEO of a publishing company that caters to tech - professionals and tech - enthusiasts, an audience of gizmo early - adopters — and from someone who can only benefit from a wide - scale adoption of eBooks.

In the eBook world, the ability to track usage data, feature adoption, and time spent with each product has meant that we have a whole new world open to us, and a new way of conceiving of and talking about our products and product development.Digital products have brought the customer back into the equation.

Germany will soon finalize fixed prices for ebooks, but questions remain about how this will affect sales models and ebook adoption.

Online sales currently represent about 39 % of all sales (Bowker), and the adoption of ebooks is fueling this shift.

By most media accounts, ebook adoption has plateaued at about a third of the overall book market, and this stall has lasted for over a year now.

Also, there's the possibility of the Douglas County model seeing wider adoption in 2012: «Assured About Security, More Publishers Agree to Sell Ebook Files to Douglas County Libraries» http://bit.ly/zdbiyI

2) I suspect (and this is a bit of a pet theory of mine) that Apple stays in the ebook space primarily to disrupt the educational textbook market (I think that iBooks Author + iTunesU + «cheap» iPad 2s = a strategy for fostering disruption in education at the grass - roots level); their presence in trade publishing is relatively incidental (this may have not been so at the start — I also suspect that launching iBooks along with iPad was initially a hedge against uncertainty about user adoption and viable use cases for the iPad.

I've written about this more here, but the point is that publishers» adoption of agency pricing happened as the ebook market was taking off, and was in response to those market changes.