Sentences with phrase «advantages over book»

But the problem is that after all these improvements, e-readers» advantages over books still aren't very significant.

If your book is in one of the most popular genres, like romance, you're going to have a natural advantage over a book like The History of Lithuanian Clog Dancing.

Not exact matches

Citing concerns about giving Google «a significant advantage over competitors,» a New York federal judge shot down a settlement that would permit Google to make millions of books accessible online — the latest setback in the Internet behemoth's six - year - long legal battle over its digital library.

«If you take this over the course of a 30 - year career and compound it,» one researcher told Malcolm Gladwell for his book Blink, «we're talking about a tall person enjoying literally hundreds of thousands of dollars of earnings advantage.»

In 2016, Advantage launched a historic partnership with Forbes, one of the most iconic business media companies in the world with over 94 million monthly readers to create ForbesBooks, a business book publisher for top business leaders.

This approach has the advantage of rendering Leviticus immediately useful to the modern preacher, but it papers over the book's special character and the uniqueness of its message.

When the empire felt there might be some advantage in «joining» the movement, they took it over and wrote the «book» defining what it was....

I gave away over 2000 PDF copies of the book to people on my email newsletter, and quite a few people also took advantage of the sale of the book over at Amazon.

The unwritten rules come into play, though, because this could be a situation where one team might have gained an advantage over another because of something that isn't explicitly in the rule book.

If the books are undervaluing the Wizards, then the over on this Morris prop is a good place to take advantage.

She noted that she had made many of the recommendations in her 2006 book, Home Team Advantage, and, more recently, as part of MTI's SmartTeams program, and that the recommendations regarding process are more fully developed in the International Safeguards for Children in Sport, which MTI, as a member of a global coalition of 38 NGO's has developed over the past four years, and is now implementing worldwide.

While my efforts to persuade the Board of Selectmen, the town manager, and the Rec Department director to allocate permits in a more equitable fashion, and to use their power to make sure that the programs using town - owned facilities met minimum standards for inclusiveness and safety, fell on deaf ears (we ended up being forced to use for our home games a dusty field the high school had essentially abandoned), I returned to a discussion of the «power of the venue permit» 10 years later in my 2006 book, Home Team Advantage: The Critical Role of Mothers in Youth Sports, where I suggested that one of the best ways for youth sports parents to improve the safety of privately - run sports programs in their communities was to lobby their elected officials to utilize that power to «reform youth sports by exercising public oversight over the use of taxpayer - funded fields, diamonds, tracks, pools, and courts, [and] deny permits to programs that fail to abide by a [youth sports] charter» covering such topics as background checks, and codes of conduct for coaches, players, and parents.

People who preferred periodicals over books also had a slight advantage over non-readers: They were 11 percent less likely to die, but only if they read for more than seven hours a week.

Fortunately, books and movies have a singular advantage over real life: no farewell has to last forever.

This frequently jaw - dropping documentary by director Alex Gibney, drawn largely from the book of the same name by Lawrence Wright, demonstrates vividly how a cult can spread among people searching for something greater in their lives, some advantage over others, some grand answer....

I haven't seen this done particularly well yet, but the ability to present in - line video and animations of concepts is a huge advantage over physical books.»

To the extent that the iPad creates pretty portable pictures, I can see how that might serve the aims of an art book, but when it comes to text I see no inherent advantage in the iPad over any other e-reading device.

If we can get our books into the major libraries around the world, it'll give out authors a long term advantage over authors who aren't in libraries.

The advantage is that all the Createspace metadata is carried over, Amazon ships the books and provides customer service.

In a Digital Book World 2014 full report, titled What Advantages Do Traditional Publishers Offer Authors, by Dana Beth Weinberg and Jeremy Greenfield, a survey is included of over 9,200 aspiring self - published, traditionally published, and hybrid authors that sought to answer the golden question of the hour: traditional publishing vs. self - publishing?

The advantages of self - publishing, as she sees it, include testing the market («sometimes self - published books get picked up by publishers») and having control over the way the book turns out.

While no book is easy to sell, nonfiction books have many marketing advantages over fiction books.

There are many advantages of an audiobook over a hard copy book and even an e-book.

The advantage of these indie press houses over self - publishing is that the indie house will do all the work of putting the book together and absorb the expenses of doing so.

Of course, if YOU have a trailer for YOUR book, that's GREAT news because it gives you a HUGE advantage over everyone else!

The only advantage the iPad has over other e-Readers at the moment is a color screen, which you can get with any net book, which is cheaper and much less limited.

In recent years, however, many authors — especially those with speaking platforms through which they can sell books directly — have realized that printing their own books has some distinct advantages over commercial publishing.

At Lightning Source, we have always maintained that the print on demand (POD) model offers significant environmental advantages over traditional offset manufacturing.With offset manufacturing books often go unsold and are destroyed, usually after being shipped and handled multiple times.

The previous post in this series discusses the advantages and disadvantages of traditional versus self - publishing when it comes to launching a book, continuing to nurture it over time, and moving on to the next opportunity — the product life cycle in book publishing.

Another example of the advantage new titles have over old: during the 2006 Bologna Children's Book Fair, our Show; Don't Tell!

All three of these e-ink readers have advantages over the iPad, which I find I'm using less and less for reading books.

This is the first post in this series and the next post discusses the advantages and disadvantages of traditional versus self - publishing when it comes to launching a book, continuing to nurture it over time, and moving on to the next opportunity — the product life cycle in book publishing.

Kobo has an advantage over kindle in that you can access foreign language books easily from its store browser but only if you access the store over a computer.

Amidst news of Amazon's apparent surrender today in the war with Macmillan over ebook pricing, the highlighted book on Macmillan's home page is Priceless, subtitled «The Myth of Fair Value (and How to Take Advantage of It)»:

Look over these ideas and create a road map — and possibly even a book marketing calendar to plan which strategies you wish to take advantage of to sell more books, what you'll need to do to accomplish each task, and when each step should happen.

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Having this inventory of books gives these authors a distinct advantage over other authors.

Another clear advantage is your complete control over the content and design of your book.

Getting published by one of the Big 5 book publishers is the goal of many authors, as being published by a major publishing house is perceived to have some advantages over smaller presses or self - publishing.

The advantage is that you have full control over the outcome of the book.

Authors of cook books have an advantage over traditional authors because they can employ a TV appearance to increase book sales.

Having control over your platform, books and intellectual property to take full advantage of opportunities that will arise.

We do not accept payments to review books and becoming a member of BookBrowse does not give you an advantage over others when it comes to having your book reviewed.

Obviously, e-reading can offer some advantages over paper books.

Skeptics and librarians can say what they want about the physical feel of paper, and romanticize over physical books, but digital has huge advantages in being more discoverable, accessible, and consumable.

It is interesting to see authors take advantage over the torrent sites that they KNOW lots of people use to get books.

One advantage of the gifting option over Smashwords Coupons is that the recipient, assuming they're already a Smashwords member, can simply click the hyperlink in the email and the book is loaded into their Smashwords Library.

Currently in use by 15 European companies, the BePooler carpooling service generates over 300 shared trips per week and offers preferential parking spaces booked for those who join the service, an important advantage in areas where parking is scarce or costly.

And we will have the huge advantage over just self - published or small - published writers because we will be using the tools traditional publishing offers to promote our smaller books as well as out traditionally published books.

You please start reading on it and you will love it as it has some advantages over the physical books.