Sentences with phrase «because of this ebooks format»

And because of this ebooks format issue becomes painful precisely as different reading devices has their own main supported formats.

Not exact matches

This could be the case because the format of ebooks for toddlers is structured so there is only a sentence or two on each page, letting them focus and fully absorb that message, instead of getting lost in a longer narrative.

For a more detailed explanation of pagination etc, you may want to give my book «Zen of eBook Formatting» a closer look because it is much, much more in - depth than the tutorial and also includes numerous advanced formatting tFormatting» a closer look because it is much, much more in - depth than the tutorial and also includes numerous advanced formatting tformatting techniques.

You will not miss out on a potential sale just because a reader would like a particular format, simply activate all three formats by clicking «Paperback, Hardcover and eBook» in the first step of the publishing process.

I am a Nook fan not because of anything Barnes and Noble has done but because I like the physical device better and I'm not limited to one particular format or one particular store in buying my ebooks.

View a movie showing just one example of placed web code inside a CircularFLO ebook Because the fixed layout EPUB3 format is based on the latest web standards of HTML5, CSS3 and JavaScript it means that other pieces of web code written using these same languages are already compliant with the standard.

Offered for free and built into the Lulu eBook publishing solution, the converter is unique because it fixes or helps creators fix the most common formatting hurdles of EPUB creation.

EBook formatting is not a trivial task, and because a lot of authors have approached me since the release of my tutorial series, I have decided to offer eBook formatting and creation as a paid service, and I would be happy to help you with your project EBook formatting is not a trivial task, and because a lot of authors have approached me since the release of my tutorial series, I have decided to offer eBook formatting and creation as a paid service, and I would be happy to help you with your project eBook formatting and creation as a paid service, and I would be happy to help you with your project also.

4) Because of Indy publications for both print and ebook formats, more female authors are getting published and therefore getting purchased by libraries and into the hands of readers.

Ebooks use the same type of code structure for formatting, so she'd know when code was bad or not needed because she's lived and breathed this stuff.

Like «Zen of eBook Formatting,» I wrote this book out of a kind of frustration because I felt the wealth of information was simply overwhelming, making it virtually impossible for aspiring self - publishing authors to stay on top of things.

I've written several posts about eBook formatting because there's a lot of confusion out there.

eBook formatting for children's books is very complicated because of illustrations.

Finally, a lot of readers are still reading ebooks in PDF file format, because they just don't care about the benefits of reflowable text (EPUB + KF8, formats they've never heard of).

The problem lies with Amazon Kindles, not Overdrive, IMHO, because it is entirely possible for someone to be able to use a Kindle to access many types of eBook formats and DRM (just as they can with an iPad), but Amazon intentionally prevents this.

Pocketbook was the sort of company that many tech savvy users liked because the devices had support for over nine different ebook formats.

Project Gutenberg PrePrints was launched in January 2006 to collect items submitted to Project Gutenberg which were interesting enough to be available online, but not ready yet to be added to the main Project Gutenberg collection, because of missing data, low - quality files, formats which were not handy, etc. 379 ebooks were available in December 2006, and 2,020 ebooks in February 2009.

But, if we broaden the perspective it is probably easier than ever before to get published because of the explosion of digital publishing options, which includes Print On Demand as well as ebook formats.

The PDF isn't truly an ebook because it retains its format no matter the size of the screen that displays it.

You will probably find that for some eBook formats you need to strip out lots of the formatting that you have done for the print version (because they don't translate well).

One of the big reasons Pocketbook is a solid e-reader is because it reads so many ebook formats.

This brand of device is popular with geeks because it allows a copious amount of different ebook formats to be read.

So when a friend who recently self - published explained to me that she only needed one ISBN because all of her ebook files were in the epub format, it clicked.

We don't know if the reason trade paper sales have gone down (which Nowell reports) because most people don't like the format or because the number of retail outlets carrying trade paper books has gone down (witness the loss of many chain bookstore locations, where most trade papers were sold) or because given a choice between trade paper and ebook, the average reader will choose ebook.

I've consciously chosen to buy most eBooks from Kobo because of Amazon's proprietary formats, exactly to avoid having to convert eBooks.

It is quickly becoming the tool of choice for major publishers such as Hachette because of the ability to export ebooks in both Kindle Format 8 and EPUB3.

There's no need for a new ISBN for each digital version of your book, because these are just different file formats containing identical information — an ebook is an ebook is an ebook.

Copy / paste, sharing passages, and generally moving files from one place to another is much harder with ebooks than with other digital goods, because of a combination of constraints in the EPUB format, digital rights management, and device / platform lock - in.

I've tried using Windows search features (i.e., content: searchterm) to do this but it fails because most of the ebooks, even the non DRM ones are in a format it can't search through.

I already formatted my ebooks to be published on CreateSpace, but it took DAYS of MANY HOURS to get it all right / done because the formatting requirements for ebooks vs. paperbacks are so vastly different.

With EBooks by Design you get two formats for the price of one — we charge the same price for the standard reflowable text option whether we provide one or both formats because 95 % of the work is done as html before splitting the file into the respective formats.

Please be aware that not all platforms display special layouts and features by default; Amazon / Kindle is the worst in this area because of the limits inherent in its outdated MOBI ebook format.

I don't really buy into the whole notion of «interactive» ebooks or whatever you want to call them, because most of the ideas, of putting some sort of strange multimedia spin on the book format, really isn't necessary.

Many indie authors hand off their ebook formatting to someone else because of the technical issues, such as HTML coding, etc..

Since you mention you need some other stuff, make sure to check out my book «Zen of eBook Formatting» also, because it contains a lot of more advanced techniques, as well as additional tips, tricks, and ideas that might come in handy on your formattinFormatting» also, because it contains a lot of more advanced techniques, as well as additional tips, tricks, and ideas that might come in handy on your formattingformatting journey.

I've had books in the top 100 in both ebook and print format, and the feedback loop is much more powerful in ebook in my experience (maybe because of instant gratification, maybe because of lower price, maybe something else).

-- Which indicator is more reliable, ie: is a reader more likely to shift formats because they become comfortable reading ebooks or because they have managed to spend a certain amount of money on ebooks?

I'm curious to know (a) why you used a paided - for service (ebookconversion.com) to do your conversion rather than use software like Calibre (free)(http://calibre-ebook.com/about), or Quark or Adobe CS5 which now accomodate eBook conversion formats; and (b) why you have chosen to send the second of your publications to a different conversion service (ebookarchitects.com)-- is it perhaps because it's the one with the complex layout?

Lulu now offers eBooks and you can upload on there with NO formatting whatsoever, because it just takes your file and you get to choose the size of it for your readers.

Retailers like Powells.com, Christianbook.com, etc. all lose a lot of transactions because of their eBook sales are limited by file format.

One of the reasons I like to keep formatting in my control is because we often change our ebooks over time.

Integrating new options into the way people discover, use, and contribute to the record of scholarship can be exhausting, and someone who hears about a new novel may have trouble getting it because it's not available through their library, their favorite bookstore can't carry it, it's in the wrong ebook format, or it's only available to people living in a different geographic region, which seems insane since their Facebook friends who are raving about it have no trouble expressing themselves from a different continent.

Of the several ebook formatting services I checked out, I chose Ebooks By Design mainly because their quote was so reasonable.

Let's first talk about Vellum because eBook formatting has been really kind of awful and I converted to Vellum back in October.

Opposite to a paper book which once owned can be exchanged freely, an ebook is hard to access and share, because of different file formats and different DRMs (what is DRM?).

I'm curious to know (a) why you used a paid - for service (ebookconversion.com) to do your conversion rather than use software like Calibre (free) or Quark or Adobe CS5 which now accommodate eBook conversion formats; and (b) why you have chosen to send the second of your publications to a different conversion service (ebookarchitects.com)-- is it perhaps because it's the one with the complex layout?

We don't want to be told that we are miserly or cheap because we don't think that the convenience of the ebook format is worth the premium price that publishers want to charge.

If you want to make sure your readers are happy with the eBook you sold them, and if you want to make sure the books won't be returned because of weird glitches or formatting errors, feel free to take a look at this page where I am outlining my services and my fees.

Sorry for the sales pitch, but it seems appropriate in this case, because with all these incredibly specific questions, I would recommend you take a closer look at my book «Zen of eBook Formatting.»

Since this seems such a hot topic, and since a lot of people seem to come to this blog for that tutorial in particular, I have set up a box in the upper right hand corner that links directly to the tutorial, because with new posts pushing the eBook formatting series further and further back, it actually became a little tedious to locate.