Sentences with phrase «actually reading ebooks»

So how many people are actually reading eBooks on their mobile phones, outside of this report?

These are words from someone else who actually read the Ebook and gave it an honest review (instead of being cynical right off the bat):

How many people will actually read ebooks?

The marketing differentiation that is possible without having the reader actually read the ebook (sex, scandal, celebrity) is at best orthogonal to the book's actual quality and at worst inversely correlated to quality.

Sure it's not as fast, not as pretty and a little clunky but for when it comes down to actually reading an ebook they can't be beat.

I do not know of one of these detractors who has actually read an eBook.

Not exact matches

And if you have opted in for an ebook, training video, or webinar, when's the last time you actually read or watched the whole thing?

Many will not be able to afford better than secondhand prices for books in general, which counts them out of buying most if not all ebooks, and never mind the expense of a device to actually read them on.

I heard recently that people who buy ebook readers are actually reading more books than before.

With everything from a seamless connection to share your reading list through your social media channels to actually annotating and communicating with other readers inside your copy of the ebook, the push has been there for quite some time to try to bring whole communities of readers together.

When it comes to purchasing eBooks on the iPhone or iPad, Apple is one of the only retailers that actually... [Read more...]

Renewed concerns about students who use tablets for reading have surfaced as experts now fear the «bells and whistles» approach to enhanced ebooks are actually stunting student comprehension.

My Android tablet does a reasonable job of displaying PDF, which is the only format of ebook that I currently actually pay money for — I can read format that on all of my computers, my tablet, and even my cellphone, and I can make permanent backups.

If you can not find the ebook you are looking for, consider exploring our interesting shelves where you can find great ebooks and pay only for what you actually read.

Last year I read 45 ebooks and 8 paper books, but I actually spent more on those physical books as I did in the Kindle store (a total about # 70 on the paper ones, and # 44.82 on ebooks — all the ebooks I've bought and not read yet [if I ever will, as I continue to buy faster than I read] pretty much equal the total spend though).

Those prices don't trigger readers» «too expensive for an ebook» attitude, and about 40 % or more of readers would have high enough expectations to actually read them.

You can download as many ebooks as you want from a catalog of 40,000 titles, and pay only for what you actually read.

Next up: maybe you want to read ebooks but you can't actually buy them.

It will take a decade or longer, but I'm sure movie studios and, if they actually become popular, eBook publishers, will go through a period of attempting to «protect» media files (translation: keep you from reading what you buy for a Kindle on any other eBook reader).

But it looks like reader preferences are shifting toward ebooks; assuming that trend keeps up, that's saying the same thing, we'll help you find information and recreational reading that we pay for for you, you don't need to pay for it individually — but only on old crusty print that you don't actually want.

I can't recall whether you mentioned this on this podcast or # 81, but on one of those two podcasts you read an email which stated that Amazon made available the ability for a customer to be notified when a book they've requested to be available on Kindle is actually published for our favorite ebook format.

Anyway, if Apple actually enters the tablet PC market — and offers ebook reading software — this could have a significant effect on how we read and consume books.

The survey finds 82 % of people who read ebooks actually live in cities.

Striking, marketable, differentiation is difficult in ebooks without having the reader actually read the book.

In a survey that covered 1,577 parents, 62 percent stated their kids aged 2 — 10 have access to a tablet or ebook reading device, but only about 49 percent of these stated they actually use the device to read.

I never understood why ebooks are costlier than say a paperback, the cost of printing and paper being removed and the thing that we don't actually own it but just a license to read the eBook.

You can purchase an eBook and the corresponding audiobook and actually read the book and play the audio edition at the same time.

The Paid eBook Review Argument — With the popularity of leaving reviews online for everything from books to consumer goods, more and more consumers are relying on reviews posted on ebook retail platforms — presumably, reviews that were posted by individuals who actually read the books they are reviewing — to give them a head's up on which books are deserving of a five - star raeBook Review Argument — With the popularity of leaving reviews online for everything from books to consumer goods, more and more consumers are relying on reviews posted on ebook retail platforms — presumably, reviews that were posted by individuals who actually read the books they are reviewing — to give them a head's up on which books are deserving of a five - star raebook retail platforms — presumably, reviews that were posted by individuals who actually read the books they are reviewing — to give them a head's up on which books are deserving of a five - star rating.

I actually prefer to read ebooks on my Kindle 3 over my chunky iPad 3.

Shelfie takes the legwork out of finding deals on ebooks you'll actually enjoy reading.

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.

Jellybooks has created a new a piece of code called candy.js, which is embedded inside an ebook to track how users actually read.

The only thing that might make this even better is if they actually made an iBooks app for Android, so people could read their eBooks and audiobooks purchased via iBooks on open android eReaders, but still be able to sync it with iCloud, and have progress, notes, etc., be synced to iBooks for Mac or iOS devices.

Ebook reading apps today respond to the removal of those physical structural cues by actually stripping out the few cues they can still offer (like useful running headers).

And if you'd actually read any of my statements here or on my blog, you'd know I've not said one word against ebooks or their readers.

They tend to read really fast and a lot of books, so because the eBook tends to be a little less expensive than the actual paperback or hardcover of the book, they can actually consume the content at a faster rate and you know get their fill of all their favorite authors.

Here's another way of getting readers interested in buying your eBook: getting great reviews, five - star reviews, from readers who have actually read your book.

While the popularity of ebooks has actually sparked a return to reading, short form publication has the potential to bring even more readers to the digital table.

Interestingly, Digital Book World reported on a brief study conducted in 2011 that showed that while children preferred to read identical content in electronic form over paper with the same level of comprehension, the level of recall actually was less when comparing an enhanced ebook to a standard digital edition.

With the creation of Project Gutenberg in the 1970s, digital reading has actually been a viable publishing option for nearly forty years, yet only in 2010 did the industry take off in the current state of ebook sales.

With the popularity of leaving reviews online for everything from books to consumer goods, more and more consumers are relying on reviews posted on ebook retail platforms — presumably, reviews that were posted by individuals who actually read the books they are reviewing — to give them a head's up on what books are deserving of a five - star rating.

I've spent way more hours trying to put my ebooks on my reader so I can read them (Cant: DRM protected despite what they say)-- than I have spent time actually enjoying reading.

While some may be buying books they lack the motivation to actually read, I'd guess that the majority of unopened ebooks are owned by avid readers that are actively building a digital library.

While there was some data from the Center for Teaching through Children's Books that seemed to show children actually learn less and retain less content and demonstrate a lower level of comprehension when reading an enhanced ebook app (there's simply too much distracting content that takes away from the story line), Russell Hampton, president of Disney Publishing Worldwide, countered that argument with the explanation that e-readers are engaging reluctant and disinterested readers in higher numbers than ever before.

Frankly, I find Calibre to be a bloated (210.8 MB compared to Bookle's 4.1 MB) and poorly - implemented app that's horrible to use, and for reading ebooks it actually launches a separate ebook app called E-book Viewer.

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I'm sure I read more than $ 10 worth of new books every month; and I'm actually OK with the «you don't really own it» model of ebook sales because I so rarely re-read anything.

But I'm really surprised this month by just how many of the ebooks I'd actually want to read!

Then I read this really interesting post by Evan Schnittman at the OUP Blog about why he uses ebooks only for convenience but actually -LSB-...]

«eBooks haven't actually changed the way we read,» said Linda Holliday, Founder and CEO of Citia, in a press release in which she explained that she started the company because our media haven't evolved as quickly as our hardware — or our reading habits.