Sentences with phrase «as an ebook reader in»

Nathan Bransford (@NathanBransford) explores the possibility of them as ebook readers in Hands - free Books Are Coming.

The attractive color LCD touchscreen on the iPad makes it more conducive to activities other than ebook reading and it would be of value to assess if the iPad takes off as an ebook reader in the long - term.

Not exact matches

pdf file won't look as good as you want in a Kindle in which case you can use a free ebook reader and converter program like the one found at http://calibre-ebook.com.

The Rocket eBook was launched in 1998 as the first dedicated ebook reader by NuvoMedia, a company founded in 1997 in Palo eBook was launched in 1998 as the first dedicated ebook reader by NuvoMedia, a company founded in 1997 in Palo ebook reader by NuvoMedia, a company founded in 1997 in Palo Alto.

To effectively reach the masses and connect with a large and diverse group of readers, eBook authors should explore all options and sell their books in as many places as possible.

Hidden Shadows is a Winner in the Fiction category of the 2016 NABE Pinnacle Book Achievement award; Winner 2016 Global Ebook Awards, Popular Literature Fiction; Short - Listed for the Eric Hoffer Award Grand Prize; finalist for the Eric Hoffer First Horizon Award; Honorable Mention, General Fiction, Eric Hoffer Award; Finalist, da Vinci Eye Award; Finalist, Debut category: WFWA (Women's Fiction Writers Association) Star Award Contest; Finalist, Literary Fiction, NIEA (National Indie Excellence Awards); Finalist for the Will Rogers Medallion Award in the Western Romance category; Finalist in the NERFA contest (National Excellence in Romance Fiction Awards), sponsored by First Coast Romance Writers, for «Novel with Romantic Elements;» Finalist in the Long Contemporary category for the Aspen Gold Reader's Choice Contest (Heart of Denver Romance Writers) and Top Ten finisher, Best Other Novel, Predators & Editors Readers» Poll 2015 as well as other awards and accolades.

Red Adept: As a fantasy / science fiction author, what improvements do you see for eBook Readers in the future?

In fall 2002, cheaper ebook readers were launched as GEB 1150 and 2150, produced by Gemstar instead of RCA.

For instance, in March 2012, nearly 60 percent of readers browsed — defined as exploring the catalog without a targeted search term — public library ebook collections to discover new content.

The world is hooked on mobile devices, such as ebook readers or tablet PCs, and the best way for content providers to register their presence in the changing digital scene is to have an app ready for the various devices that are sought after the most.

«As more and more in - classroom and take - home reading takes place online and via eBook readers and tablets, publishers can help create future generations of readers and contribute to the health of our nation's educational system by providing books in the formats that schools need to help students learn.»

In a cryptically worded graphic on their website, a lot of unanswered questions were alluded to, particularly that the ebooks parents have already purchased for their young readers as part of the platform «may soon no longer be available,» and that consumers «may be able to continue using your eBooks by making sure to open them on a bookshelf at least once by October 15.&ebooks parents have already purchased for their young readers as part of the platform «may soon no longer be available,» and that consumers «may be able to continue using your eBooks by making sure to open them on a bookshelf at least once by October 15.&eBooks by making sure to open them on a bookshelf at least once by October 15.»

Just as ebook distributors competed for readers by offering the best in content, pricing, devices, and compatibility, digital magazine providers are also upping the ante when it comes to vying for consumer loyalty.

Freescale believes the new processors will bring about a quantum change in the way we perceive the mobile device segment, such as ebook readers and tablet PCs.

This, together with the lack of a pan-Russian book sales network like Barnes & Noble, that creates the perfect setting for ebooks to thrive, and as is evident elsewhere in the world, digital editions are already luring more readers than their printed counterparts.

As the theory goes, scammers had figured out that Amazon wasn't counting the pages a KU subscriber had read in an ebook; instead Amazon was only measuring how far into a book the reader gets.

eBooks as a viable source of industry revenue for both traditional publishing and indie has been called into question in the past, especially given the fact that critics love to indicate the plateau that ebooks seem to have hit with reeBooks as a viable source of industry revenue for both traditional publishing and indie has been called into question in the past, especially given the fact that critics love to indicate the plateau that ebooks seem to have hit with reebooks seem to have hit with readers.

From 2010 to 2013, independent authors enjoyed a boom time as millions of readers migrated to ebooks, driving unprecedented growth in digital publishing.

It is possible to see the foundations of the modern eBook from such activity, as the necessity for reflowable text when reading on a Portable Digital Assistant (PDA) led to the formation of the Open eBook Publication Structure (a precursor to the EPUB format) in 1999, and several portable devices such as the Game Boy Advance, PalmPilot and SoftBook had facilities for modems, allowing readers to receive books without using a computer, often seen as one of the core selling points of the original Kindle.

Self - publisher identities day after Christmas as highest traffic day for new eBook downloadsRaleigh, NC (December 21, 2011)-- Lulu.com, the leader in self - publishing, announced today the first annual «Download Day» to be held December 26th, 2011 — a day the company predicts to be the highest traffic shopping day for readers downloading new eBook content on e-reader devices and tablets.

And of course, they all hope that lots of readers will enjoy the free samples sufficiently to pay real money to buy their actual books, whether as ebooks or in print.

With the ebooks and other documents, I have paid attention to accessibility by adding tags for screen readers in the case of PDF and by including options such as accessibility descriptions in the case of ePub.

Authors, writers, publishers of eBooks, audiobooks and short texts can... A) sell their eBook through their author page on XinXii - without author contract - in real - time, without technical skills - with an own authorpage and online shop - enter all information such as description, tags, cover, price... - upload an eBook in one or multiple formats: PDF, ePub, mobi, doc, xls... - high royalties per download - consolidated real - time sales reports - keeping full editorial and copyright control or B) sell their eBook through their author page on XinXii and additionally on major eBook retailers - we convert eBooks to the ePub and mobi format for free - we distribute to the leading eBook - shops all over the world for free - we provide consolidated sales reports Readers have... - the opportunity to discover new titles in all categories and genres - an easy access to a huge variety of content - can instantly download after purchase - have the opportunity to rate and comment on eBooks

The varying white tones of the tolino vision 4 HD eBook reader, which adjust automatically or manually as the day proceeds, thus always ensure an ideal light temperature in harmony with the reader's natural biorhythm.

As August winds to a close, there are a number of ebook readers and related items on sale, so I decided to put them all together in one long list instead of doing separate posts for each offer.

«The move by Barnes & Noble as well as Amazon to slash the prices of their eBook readers reflects a fundamental change in their business strategy intended to counter the rising competitive pressure from Apple's iPad,» iSuppli said.

Plus these days with the eBook becoming more prevalent, its impossible to read the ending as the most you get are the first few pages using the Look Inside option, which probably explains why eBook sales here in the United Kingdom, a nation of paper and hardback lovers, pale in comparison to the much more enlightened readers in the United States.

If you've been an ebook reader for a while, you'll know as well that several formats that used to be in play have fallen out of favor.

Perhaps as more and more novels find a home on eBook, and writers begin to incorporate more media into what they write, eBooks will come with playlists that inform the story, or even let the reader in on what writers were listening to as they wrote.

The Digital Reader's post in turn points off to Publishers Weekly's report, which describes a survey taken of nearly 5,000 readers as to why they aren't buying as many ebooks anymore.

The simple fact of the matter is that dedicated eReading devices are not being replaced, or even now purchased in the first place by readers of ebooks, as ebooks can now be read on any number of different devices, whether they be tablets, phablets, phones or laptops.

If you have audio narration available for your eBook, we can add that narration as a media overlay to fixed - layout ePubs in Apple's platform, allowing readers to have the eBook read to them as they follow along.

Of course, including audio and even video in an enhanced ebook is certainly possible nowadays, and part of the initial wowza applauds for when ebooks became more mainstream — except most of us as ebook readers, don't go for the rich media we were promised, even when available.

Commencing in July 2013, Book Country will have an online bookstore as well to sell your eBook and for readers to purchase eBooks.

As the website grows, I will continue to provide the latest free ebook finds, reviews about the products I know and use, and relevant news about what's happening in the ebook world from a reader's perspective.

Instead of viewing each ebook sale as a source of profit, authors should view each ebook sale as a way of driving qualified traffic traffic to their website, as the first step in building long - term profitable relationships with their ebook readers.

Though the Star sometimes describes the Dispatches as an ebook subscription offering, what it has in fact created is a weekly longform magazine, or special report series, that's entirely funded by readers.

So far, FBReader ignores CSS stylesheets and most HTML elements that help to control spacing, so the visual presentation of many of these ebooks on FBReader will look pretty minimal compared to the appearance of the same book in another epub reader such as the Adobe Digital Editions one.

You won't find the extensive ebook augmentation options in the Bebook Touch as you would in the Kindle, Nook, or Kobo line of readers, but the unit is perfectly acceptable for your average user who just wants to change the size of the font and load in their own books.

In the end, the Reader store needs to lower eBook prices, build community, open a proper subscription based book club, expand into foreign markets and leverage their name brand as a primary mover of growth.

A bit biased review, seeing as you are supposedly about to release your 13.3 ebook reader, which is in direct competition.

As 2011 came to close and predictions were made for the future of the publishing industry, several sources within the industry supported the idea that transmedia reading was going to see huge gains in popularity this year as readers come to expect more from the technology behind e-reading and as authors and publishers clamor to stand out in the vast crowd of ebookAs 2011 came to close and predictions were made for the future of the publishing industry, several sources within the industry supported the idea that transmedia reading was going to see huge gains in popularity this year as readers come to expect more from the technology behind e-reading and as authors and publishers clamor to stand out in the vast crowd of ebookas readers come to expect more from the technology behind e-reading and as authors and publishers clamor to stand out in the vast crowd of ebookas authors and publishers clamor to stand out in the vast crowd of ebooks.

This is sort of a big deal because KoReader brings a whole lot to the party... like 2 column landscape, night mode, Kobo's * complete * control over the ebook experience (as you say in the video) within KoReader, * very * easy ebook organization (KoReader understands folders so organizing a library is trivial) AND a * much * better PDF reader with text reflow.

By allowing readers to purchase a printed version from an ebook through the company — embedded with the customer's name and phone number as a watermark, along with identifying data on the bookstore — Paperight is working to increase access to reading material in a legal, viable way.

This offering comes at a time when studies still demonstrate that younger readers tend to not only prefer print when reading self - selected texts, but an alarming study also showed a decrease in reading comprehension when kids were required to read digital editions (as opposed to having selected the ebook for themselves).

To help you reach your goal, Goodreads is once again reminding readers in the Challenge that they can subscribe to the free Goodreads Deals newsletter, which promotes titles and offers readers discounts of as much as 80 % on ebooks from multiple retailers, including Amazon, B&N, Kobo, Google Play, and Apple.

Those who remember the aftermath of the Borders collapse may recall that not having its own specific digital reader was one of the things that many critics pointed to as its failure to embrace ebooks in the way that Amazon and Barnes & Noble did.

Of more use to average reading consumers is 1DollarScan's other key feature, the ability to create ebook editions out of print titles that users already own; again, this ability to store and access the content is the real draw, as well as offering readers the chance to save their book files in the event of pending damage.

Finally, the worldwide market has failed to embrace eBooks in a meaningful way, as readers in North America have.

An infographic included in Hazard Owen's article illustrates how the trend is shifting over last year's numbers, as well as attributes the popularity of series like The Hunger Games and now potentially the release of the Harry Potter ebooks as tools that can help draw more teen readers into ebook use.