Snapplify was started in 2011 to provide tablet and mobile applications as well as browser
based web readers to publishers and content producers who want to sell their content digitally.
You can read those comics in their (pretty crappy) Flash -
based web reader, on the (average, but sometimes janky) iPad reader, on iPhone, or on your Android device.
Not exact matches
For getting statistics on them, you could use Feedburner, or just approximate the number of
readers based on how many people use the most common
web based feed
readers like Google
Reader or Bloglines.
The
web -
based book format allows
readers to view the Journal of Attachment Parenting via any device with access to the Internet.
The server stats don't show any referring sites sending THAT many
readers, and I'm also not seeing the kind of spike in traffic from
web -
based email programs (Yahoo Mail, etc.) that an email newsletter pickup usually causes.
Some larger organizations, particularly membership -
based ones, may want to consider letting their
readers set up pages on their sites so that the organization becomes the
reader's default page — their entry point into the
web.
It impairs news gathering: Some 30 daily newspapers have been shuttered in the past three years, and virtually all the rest have been rocked by layoffs, as advertisers and
readers flee to blogs and other free,
Web -
based news sources where the reporting is often slapdash or recycled.
Each year we list the best Christian dating sites on the
web based on the views of our
readers.
Gmail, Drive / Docs, Calendar, Sites, YouTube,
Reader, and Blogger are just a few of the amazing apps your students will enjoy, but the hidden beauty of Google Apps is the sharing, security, and
web -
based platform.
I use Pageflakes (www.pageflakes.com)-- a free
Web -
based feed
reader with an appealing layout — to follow different types of information, including current events in countries my 6th grade social studies class is studying (www.pageflakes.com/wferriter/16714925) and my students» digital projects (www.pageflakes.com/wferriter/16617706).
In this
web seminar, presenters explored some research -
based strategies that are effective with all struggling
readers, whether they are English language learners, students with reading disabilities, or students who have simply fallen behind.
The Walking Dead, which won the 2010 Eisner Award for Best Continuing Series at San Diego Comic Con, recently went day - and - date with its digital version on comiXology - enabled devices and
Web reader and is now giving its loyal fan
base the ability to enjoy the comic in all of its gory in its own dedicated app.
The codebase has been adopted as the nucleus of several browser -
based «cloud»
readers, including the new Bookshare
Web Reader, and the project will continue on that vector as «Readium
Web».
However, the change doesn't mean your Cloud Drive will automatically turn into a free,
web -
based e-book
reader of sorts.
Blog - A
web -
based journal in which writers post opinions, reviews, thoughts, images etc. for
readers.
«For decades,
readers have turned to the library to discover new books, and OverDrive's new responsive library platform is
based on
web - centric open standards to carry that tradition to the next generation of
readers.»
The new app, originally available for iOS and now Android and
web -
based as well, allows
readers to read their previously purchased digital titles in one location, regardless of which digital platform was used for the purchase.
One of the things Bookeen has pioneered is HSIS technology, which gives you the the best
web - browsing experience you will find anywhere on an e-ink
based reader.
Reabble is a
web -
based RSS
reader that optimized for Amazon Kindle's builtin
web browser, can also... [Read more...]
When you publish your book through Kindle Direct Publishing your book becomes available for
readers to read on any Kindle device to include a
web browser, smartphone, Windows, Mac -
based computers, iPad, tablets, and so forth through a Kindle reading app.
Apple would also be prohibited from entering into agreements with suppliers of e-books, movies, TV shows or other contents that would make it likely that prices would rise at its competitors, but the real change here for consumers would come from the requirement that Apple allow its competitors to offer links to their e-bookstores from their own iOS e-book
reader applications, getting rid of the need for workarounds like Amazon's recent free sample links update to its Kindle app, or the iPad - optimized
web -
based store.
There is very little in general that
web -
based readers could do that trumps existing apps.
If the core selling points of your
web -
based ebook
reader is that it paginates and works offline — two features that native apps easily do much much better — then you've already failed.
Finally — and I feel bad saying this as I'm a fan of the people involved in these projects — every
web -
based ebook
reader I've seen so far had at least a whiff of the old death - smell from the outset.
Yeah maybe they
based their format on a few
web technologies, but that doesn't mean you have to complain when it doesn't work in an unsupported
reader - they just weren't designed for that.
It's not clear at the moment what problem from the
reader's perspective a
web -
based ebook
reader would solve that existing native apps don't.
The first tool will allow
readers to open any book in the catalog within a
web -
based browser and find specific pages, all without having to download the book.
It is easy for ebook pirates to purchase a retail copy and use programs such as Calibre to strip the Adobe DRM and make it available on Torrent sites, forums or even underground subscription services that have fully functional Android apps to read the content or sophisticated
web based readers.
[131] In August 2011, Amazon released an HTML5 -
based webapp for supported
web browsers called Kindle Cloud
Reader.
Readers who purchase titles in the Comics app also get access to them in their
Web -
based reader, so even if you don't have your iPad or iPhone handy, you can still view your comics on other operating systems and hardware.
According to their site, BookGrabbr is an App and
web -
based technology product designed to expand the brand and media platform of any author by creating and increasing visibility in the book community and securing new
readers and customers for those authors» books.
People are still looking for good content to read, so writers will still be needed, it's just the delivery methods, print, audio, video or
web have made it so that content can be consumed
based on the writer's and
reader's agreement to deliver it in the form wanted.
An eBook
reader is nothing more than a specialized
web browser — eBooks are
based on on HTML formats — and as such, the purchases themselves are nothing more than
web transactions.
It's surprising it took Barnes & Noble this long to release a
web -
based e-book
reader.
This is really the
basis Amazon used to create the Kindle Cloud
Reader, which is an all - in - one
web based solution that can be used on any PC, MAC, or Tablet.
The new app, originally available for iOS and now Android and
web -
based as well, allows
readers to read their previously purchased digital titles in one... [Read more...]
While there were a lot of new «
web»
based social networks for authors, there was nothing that really helped challenged them, and or gave them a way to promote themselves in a way that finds new
readers; WeFiction.com is in the process of being that new marketing tool.
The potential
reader fills out the
web -
based Review Copy / ARC request form and the author is notified via email of the request.
And so you get Amazon launching the Kindle Cloud
Reader Web -
based app.
Amazon, for example, recently launched Cloud
Reader, a
Web -
based interface for reading Kindle books, and others, including online video purveyor Vudu, have followed suit.
Amazon introduced Kindle Cloud
Reader on Wednesday, an HTML5 -
based web application that runs in mobile Safari on the iPad, Safari on the Mac and PC, and Chrome (s goog) on the Mac and other desktop operating systems.
They added some much - needed new features to the Kindle for Android app, and they also updated the Kindle for iPad app as well as the Kindle Cloud
Reader, their
web browser
based app.
The experts at
Web Design Relief know that successful author websites have one clear, primary mission — whether it's to sell books, develop a fan
base, connect more personally with
readers, or build a brand.
Stanza, the epub -
based e-book
reader for the iPhone and other
Web - capable phones.
In fact, just the idea of creating a reading optimized device that is Android
based and could have access to Android Apps and the full
Web is disruptive to the ebook
reader premise in its own right.
The app is now multi-platform, with iPad and
web -
based readers and Android on the way.
What sets them apart is the
web -
based experience that facilitates
readers in offline reading when the book can be «cacheable.»
The new
Web -
based Sony Library Finder tool can be used to find e-books in the local library that can be checked out, downloaded onto a desktop computer and then loaded onto a Sony
Reader device — all without charge.
Ibis
Reader is written in HTML5, and is a combination of a
web -
based service and a locally cached
web application running on the iPad's mobile Safari browser which allows you to read DRM - free EPUB files that you can upload to the ibisreader.com
web site, or connect to an OPDS - formatted book repository anywhere on the
web, including ones you can create yourself.
First Second Books» Editorial Director (and
web cartoonist with «Sailor Twain») Mark Siegel noted that in the four ongoing
web -
based comics he's helped to launch, the most exciting element of publishing digitally has been seeing a unique
reader community whose feedback affects the comics creation rise around each project including the Iranian comics «Zahra's Paradise» whose serialization was in part inspired by the role Twitter played in shaping news coverage of the violent election protests that rocked the country last year.