Sentences with phrase «because readers access»

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Some publishers of traditional journals — for which submission is free but readers must pay a subscription — have shied away from open - access journals because it was not clear whether they would be profitable.

I am so excited because the lovely people from The Mint Julep Boutique is giving all of my marblelous readers exclusive access to purchase any slouchy dolman tunic of your choice for only $ 24 (regular price is $ 48)!

Salmi believes that from their first hesitant steps as emergent readers, her students gained ground because of ready access to high - interest books, a supportive teaching and community ecosystem, and a program built on the Renaissance Accelerated Reader ® application.

In short, because they gained access to a classic, our formerly reluctant readers did the kind of heavy intellectual work with books they'd often only watched classmates do.

That's because the default ereading software that InkBook chose (FB Reader, I think) was awful and accessing an alternative — Moon Plus — was a multi-step process compared to a dedicated ereader like Kobo or Kindle.

Watermarking is an unintrusive means of DRM because it does not limit how readers can access or utilize the content.

Traditionally, bookmobiles serve to bring books to readers who can not access the library because of distance or ability.

This redundant access mechanism is necessary, because some screen readers disable Readium's standard keyboard gestures.

So while the JManga announcement caused a lot of angst among readers who will lose access to manga they had «bought» from the streaming service, the Square Enix shutdown doesn't seem to be causing widespread panic, perhaps because so few people have used the site.

That in turn has been helping some good authors, some published by large houses as well, get works into the hands of readers who might never have had access to those books because they would not sell in high enough volumes via traditional print ways.

It's also a great deal if you own Kindle hardware and are a big reader, because you'll have access to half a million free eBooks whenever you want them.

Self - publishing, for many, is very personal; your readers are your close friends, they have access to you through your marketing platforms, and they literally become your «street team» and marketers, touting your books for free simply because they loved them so much.

Getting rid of in - app purchases «is a very big deal,» Conway wrote, «because it strikes to the heart of what made Comixology's app a near - perfect venue for discovering and falling in love with new comics, a venue creators and publishers have been searching for since the collapse of mainstream newsstand distribution in the late 1970s - early»80s: it destroys the casual reader's easy access to an impulse purchase.

Allen Lau the CEO of Wattpad weighed in on the issue and said «At Wattpad we use HTML5 as our default container because the value isn't in developing a «book specific» content format, but rather in ensuring that readers and writers can always access their books and get the full experience of our product.

If a writer wanted to get their book into bookstores where readers discover and purchase books, they needed a traditional publishing deal because publishers controlled access to retail distribution

I do think in the long run, it doesn't serve a reader's interest to have this model be the dominant one, just because it never sounds like a good idea to adopt a model that puts one company more in control of access to books than another.

Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) has responded to the reports earlier today of how it rejected the Sony (NYSE: SNE) Reader app from the App Store, because it sells content within the app, and lets users access content that they purchased outside Apple's own App Store.

So not only are front matter blurbs redundant — potential readers already have access to them before they download a sample or «read inside» — but they they may hurt sales because they delay the reader's entry into the text, and because they take away from the amount of the actual book the reader can peruse before buying.

An index is useful for complex works of non-fiction and academic books because it allows the reader to quickly access specific topics and references.

So keeping an eye on what's happening to one of your income streams is a very good idea... as is preparing to be able to tell your readers what to do when they write you, distraught because they can't access your books anymore (because bankruptcy).

Which is good for me as a reader, because I get access to a lot more stories that would * never * have been published (the dizzying rise of the superhero novel is a case in point, though I haven't dipped my ladle in that pot of soup just yet).

When Amazon decided to lend eBooks to its customers, people from all around the world applauded the decision because it will allow avid readers to get access to the books without actually buying a Kindle device.

What you haven't spelled out is the way that ISBNs are still being used as a gatekeeping mechanism that narrows readers» access to the very best, most groundbreaking literature because many of the leading literary prizes define possession of an ISBN as their definition of publication for eligibility purposes.

And in some cases, they have access to an even larger pool of readers because of affiliations they've built with other book bloggers and reviewers.

Access to comiXology's comics reader and cloud storage was unavailable for an extended period — essentially, the front door to comiXology's vaults couldn't be opened because everyone was pressing up against it, so no one got anything.

First of all, because it's fantastic to have this access to America's library users — a huge cadre of enthusiastic readers.

On Kobo it feels like the curated lists are overflowing with big name and big press titles simply because a staffer has easier access to them and knows it will take less effort to convince a reader to buy them (thus making Kobo money).

If a Web Clipping Service Lost Access to Your Kindle Highlights It's Probably Not Because of Publishers - The Digital Reader

Many ebook readers prefer to shop at Smashwords because they pay one purchase price and gain access to an ebook in multiple ebook formats, readable on any e-reading device.

More indies will take steps in 2018 to form a closer, more direct relationships with their readers because as indies are learning, if someone else controls your access to readers, they can tax that access or take it away.

Novelist Laura Lam wrote on Twitter: «I'm personally not bothered by the small percentage of readers who pirate because they have no access to books any other way.

Amazon has been such a dominant force in the book world largely because they have focused on the reader, on delivering what readers want: easy access to ebooks, easy delivery of paper books to your door, a seamless buying experience.

For instance, you can't access the dictionary or other on - screen functions when zoomed in because the Reader needs to scroll in that mode.

This is HUGE news because one of the major things separating the Kindle from the Sony reader is the ability to directly access and read PDF documents.

This shift in technology opens up an entire new market to authors because they are no longer dependent upon brick and mortar stores and transportation highways for potential new readers to access their digital books.

We've had plenty of readers contact us and say that they loved the digital comic so much that they were thrilled to have a hardcover, and then there were others who wrote to say how happy they were to have the hardcover, because reading comics digitally either didn't appeal to them or that they just didn't have access.

Rowse also argues that outbound linking in moderation can improve reader satisfaction because you are providing your readers with access to resources with which they otherwise may not have been familiar (on the other hand, excessive linking can annoy readers because you don't let them build a «train of thought» since they are busy checking out all of your links).

The good thing about this collection is that because this collection is from the Bodleian Law Library, and we receive «everything published in the UK» via Legal Deposit, it includes 19th century English books on law that may not have been collected in the US by Michigan, NYU or the other Google Books partners, and may yet provide readers with access to unique items.

But I'll be back, and I suggest you, too, persevere, because, if, as ReadWriteWeb opines, even the U.S. government open access data initiative data.gov has whole lot to learn from the Brits, our government desperately needs to see how those who «get it» are engaging their citizens; and our informed readers need to do what they can to cause it to get it, too.