Sentences with phrase «about ebook consumers»

A new study by the Book Industry Study Group (BISG) puts a twist on the conventional wisdom about ebook consumers, e-readers and tablets.

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-- Imagine Nike or Under Armour giving a consumer a free ebook about marathons with each purchase of shoes $ 100 or more.

Again this year, consumer media coverage of Book Expo America is focused on eBooks (the Financial Times headline, «E-books Rewrite an Industry» contrasts with a blogger's take that BEA is about clueless «Industry Dinosaurs on Parade «-RRB-.

The information you provide for the «About the Book» will also be used as a description of your eBook and as metadata (descriptive information that will be available to consumers) supplied to distributors.

The Publisher's Association's Statistics Yearbook, as reported in the Guardian, talks about a massive growth in eBook sales, where consumers spent in 2011 # 92M, while print lost 7 % to previous year, totaling sales to # 1.579 B. Notice the M versus the B.

As the owner of an ebook and ereader blog that is heavily invested in research into the tablet industry, I would advise windows tablet purchasers to wait about a year before buying to give software developers and microsoft the chance to work the bugs out as well as the price to come down to the point it appeals to mainstream consumers rather than early adopters.

The Copenhagen Post published an article this week about an ebook startup idea that seems to have already come and gone in the minds of other consumer markets.

But today, an article by Aaron Stanton for Digital Book World may provide the answers to how to categorize ebooks to ensure the safety of online shoppers — especially underaged readers — while also offering consumers more detailed information about the type and level of content within the virtual pages of a book.

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.

While it might be hard to envision having your mom «unwrap» an ebook for Christmas, more and more consumers are turning to the portability associated with long distance gift giving and turning to virtual shopping; and according to a number of social media posts about ebook purchasing, holiday gift givers are quite likely to purchase an ebook for themselves to read while traveling or while visiting relatives.

One of the initial debates about the recent growth of digital publishing was in the way that ebooks were viewed by consumers and by the publishing industry.

While many e-reader recipients would logically be expected to open user accounts with the platform that serves their e-readers and then follow through with a few ebook purchases in the post-gift giving excitement, it actually speaks volumes about where consumers choose to spend their dollars and lend their support that patrons were checking out ebooks on Christmas.

Britain, where Amazon launched its Kindle ebook reader in 2010, is further down the digital road, with consumer ebook sales making up about 13 percent of combined print and ebook sales in the first half of 2012, according to The Publishers Association.

Bowker, a company that has released some vital reports on studies conducted across various aspects of the publishing industry, spoke to GoodEReader at Digital Book World about the staggering growth of ebooks in the market, the metadata requirements that help a reading audience find the books that are being produced, and the overall buying and reading preferences of consumers.

Rachel Willmer, the founder of Luzme who recently spoke at the FutureBook Conference, spoke to GoodeReader this week about the creation of what is essentially a highly - accessible search engine for retailing ebooks directly to consumers.

«Like Kobo, FNAC is passionate about reading and about the opportunity ebooks offer to the consumers.

As it stands, companies like Google, Apple, and Amazon have based their operations in Luxembourg to take advantage of its 3 % VAT on ebooks, but that benefit to consumers is about to disappear.

Consumers still prefer to buy real books (I mean, if the price is almost the same or even cheaper, why buy an ebook, with all the restrictions about lending it for instance?).

Random House offered perpetual access at a high price while Penguin offered one year of access for about the consumer price of the ebook.

Obviously there can be a lot more contributing to the drop in sales — a weaker economy means less consumers taking farther - reaching vacations, for example — but if the trend that came about with the enhanced ebooks is solid, could this mean that people who buy books about business or technology embrace e-reading while readers who purchase travel guides or cookbooks are less apt to choose digital over print?

Unlike suits brought about on behalf of consumers — such as the lawsuit brought against Apple and five of the then - Big Six publishers for artificially overcharging customers for ebooks — this one is focused on the people who bought stock in Barnes and Noble based on information that the SEC now feels might have been false.

In this issue you'll still find news about new Kindle features, other ebook readers, benchmarks in the ongoing Kindle Revolution, and insightful analysis by Publetariat founder (and Kindle Nation general manager) April Hamilton on ebook business - to - consumer models.

It's a further sign that the education market might be a bigger early player in the ebook market development than the wider consumer market although textbook suppliers are nervous about just how the move to ebooks will affect their traditional business.

Before going into greater detail about what the latest version of iBooks can do, we want to treat non-Apple consumers to the currently free and available Chrome plugin that can do a good job of rendering EPUB3 eBooks.

As error - prone as OCR - produced ebooks are, could the book world benefit by offering consumers more information about how an ebook is produced?

This means that consumers may buy the ebook, and a watermark will appear on each page that contains personal information about that consumer (email, phone number, etc.).

i can understand regional protection for local markets, Australia / NZ has a tiny retail market which would instantly be flooded by almost any import / export of AUS / US / EU printed retail books, but what about the instance where there is no competing market, when the local distributor has no eBook version, has no plans to operate in the eBook market, and yet, local publishers and local distributors have no ability to modify that geographic embargo for consumers, when they won't be competing in that market.

The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission has urged local retailers to voice their concerns about eBook price - fixing as it considers a lawsuit against Apple and five of the world's largest book publishers, The >>

When the standard becomes available, singular eBooks will be possible that are hard to counterfeit, yet consumers will be able to make their own decisions about how they share their eBooks, with no imposed usage or sharing restrictions, and their purchases will be fully untethered from vendors.

So it's clear that consumers are unwilling to pay more, or about the same price, for an ebook as they do for print.

News articles imply that consumers are abandoning ebooks and are returning to print books, and then those articles speculate about whether ebooks were «just a fad.»

«We are excited about Google joining the largest ecosystem of content distributors that believe in giving consumers the freedom to read ebooks across platforms and device types,» said Dave Burkett, vice president and general manager, Creative Solutions Business, Adobe.

The rise of the pirate eBook websites coincides with concern among consumers about the high price of legal book downloads.

I don't want to speculate about what goes on in other people's bedrooms but I suspect it might be something similar, because figures published today by the Publishing Association show that sales of consumer ebooks have dropped by 17 %, while sales of physical books are up 8 %.

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Citing a recent survey about consumers» preferred price to buy an eBook, he set the price at # 3.99 hoping that lower price will appeal to a large group of readers.

When it comes to ebook marketing, ebook promotion services and self published book marketing, it's all about «discoverability» — the process of making consumers aware of your e-book and then compelled to purchase it.

The thing about ebooks, though, is that libraries and consumers don't buy them, instead paying for the aforementioned license — which isn't covered by first - sale doctrine.»

Back to the first article about the consumer's rights, I must admit that both the writer and author, Marilynn Byerly, have good points to prove to their reader that the current state of eBook rights is a work in progress.

Look, I'm be big Amazon user and I like their consumer - focus business model, that said, Amazon can self proclaim all they want about ebook profit growth, until they release actual numbers nothing is real.

The Reader Daily Edition gives consumers wireless access via AT&T's 3G mobile broadband network to Sony's eBook store from just about anywhere in the U.S. Book lovers will be able to browse, purchase and download books as well as select newspapers and magazines when and where they want.

We are about to head over to the Las Vegas Convention Center to check out the eBook TechZone at the International Consumer Electronics Show (CES).

There is no doubt that for many years the serious legal publishers have been much further ahead of ebook technology, the latter being about simple devices for reading basic narrative in consumer publishing environments.