Sentences with phrase «bigger reading platform»

It is probably my second-most used Google service — after GMail — and I have always been befuddled by Google's lack of desire to make Google Reader into a bigger reading platform... I wish they would reconsider this decision or, better yet, release the project into the open - source community so that someone can build a follow - on product.

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Remember, people reading content on a mobile platform are often doing so on a device that's not a whole lot bigger than a credit card.

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Like, if you know who are you talking to and that is what a platforms like Sidney's, like mine is I am all about actually creating a tribe so you can have that one - on - one connection because I think there is a big difference between reading information and having a real person be able to sit with you and talk with you and make you invalidate what you are going through and be able to relate to what you are going through.

This as - of - yet untapped level on consumer — the person who wishes he read more books or was more up - to - date on current events, but simply doesn't have enough time to devote to this type of reading — is becoming a bigger focus among digital publishing platforms; last week, Rooster announced the March 11th launch of its «snippet» reading subscription that lets users consume serialized books at a fraction of the cost of full - size ebook subscriptions, again, optimized for smartphone reading.

The Bluefire Reader is one of the best independent ebook reading apps for the iPad, with its biggest selling point being that it uses the Adobe Digital Editions DRM platform.

The rise of phablets, big phones approaching tablets in size, will only add to the popularity of this reading platform.

According to the Alliance of Independent Authors, Flipkart's decision to pull out of the e-book business means that Amazon Kindle is now the largest online reading platform in India (though Flipkart is obviously trying not to give Amazon, one of its biggest rivals, more business, as its choice of Kobo shows).

With everything from offering up one of its bestselling titles for free to OverDrive for the Big Library Read, to the creation of the Put Me in the Story platform that they opened up to other publishers to use, Sourcebooks... [Read more...]

With everything from offering up one of its bestselling titles for free to OverDrive for the Big Library Read, to the creation of the Put Me in the Story platform that they opened up to other publishers to use, Sourcebooks constantly reshapes the very image of publishing.

One of the big advantages of this cloud platform is that you can use it on your iPad to buy and read books.

If reading consumers had to name the single biggest drawback to finding quality content to stock their e-reader devices with, high on the list may be the abundance of spam and PLR content in the catalogs of titles from some of the platforms.

I don't make very good use of social media and every successful author I've read about on the web (OK — almost every successful author) says you need to tend to your author platform, a big part of which is social media.

I'd also submit that another big contributor to FSOG's popularity is the advent of ebooks: unlike a hardcover or paperback, the ebook platform makes it possible for you to read a book like this without anybody else knowing what you're reading.

A device dedicated to non-dedicated readers is a big risk to Amazon which also faces a few other risks when it comes to casual readers — Apple can easily kill two of the most important channels, Amazon doesn't have the advantage of being the default or the only reading app on these platforms, other companies can beat it, and it has little control over the complete user experience (resulting in oddities like users having to buy Kindle books through the browser).

Today's feature story, «Big in Berlin: Social Reading Startups Readmill and dotdotdot,» looks at two companies working on helping to bring readers together through social reading experiences and plaReading Startups Readmill and dotdotdot,» looks at two companies working on helping to bring readers together through social reading experiences and plareading experiences and platforms.

The bigger problem is those writers who «play» the system, offering free books, then building a review platform on the back of it and upping their ratings.I read several posts boasting how writers got themselves to the top of various lists by this methodology.

It really is a post worth reading and the biggest takeaway for me was that not only can a platform get users addicted by being super simple to use (the path of least resistance) it can also get developers addicted by making it very simple for them to publish code and get paid.

It seems like the perfect platform for reading manga or comics, since it's bigger and higher resolution than comparable Nooks and Kindles.

To ensure portability, bigger companies (including Amazon and Kobo) provide you with all - platform apps: you can start reading on your computer while drinking your morning coffee, continue where you left off on your e-reader and finish on your smartphone.

MOBI is the other big e-book file format, and may be the most popular of all since it's the format used by Amazon and read by the Kindle — the most popular e-book platform.

Over the past twelve months, we at The Pigeonhole, a digital reading and conversation platform, have progressed from running small - scale serialisations for independent publishers looking to make the most out of their marketing budget, to larger and increasingly global campaigns for some of the biggest publishing houses and authors in the industry.

Unless one of the «closed loop» vendors (Amazon, Apple, etc.) does a big local language push in those markets, there's not an easy way to buy DRM - enabled e-books, even though there are plenty of reading platforms available.

There are other writers I enjoy reading who are also not on Twitter, which seems like a career - damning thing to do, although most of them are established writers with high level platforms in the form of big name publishers or national magazines and papers.

The second big difference is that Google plans to use the standard web browser for its reading platform and the ebooks themselves will reside «in the cloud» on Google's servers.

They're apparently bigger fans of the platforms Amazon, B&N, and to a lesser degree, Apple, have built to purchase and read ebooks, and the ebooks themselves don't have the same emotional connection as those they buy in print to keep on bookshelves.

In terms of reading platforms, mobile devices enjoy almost exclusive preference (China being the world's biggest market for smartphones), with a high percentage of readers reading fiction through apps.

The other big benefit of choosing Amazon as your e-book provider is that the company offers reading apps on nearly every major hardware platform.

If the big six began selling ebooks without DRM, readers would at least be able to buy from other retailers and read their ebooks on whatever platform they wanted, thus eroding Amazon's monopoly position.

Director, Product Management — Amazon Kindle Interview starts at 18:09 and ends at 43:26 The biggest technical challenge I would say is creating a seamless Page Flip reading experience across all of our platforms.

«The iPhone can't get any bigger — it has to fit in your pocket — but a larger iPod Touch, say something the size of a paperback or the Kindle, would be a great platform for reading, as well as all the other things the iPod Touch does, like gaming and browsing.»

«Google's grab of Oyster suggests ebooks, like news, are becoming «content» read on big platforms.»

There are still big questions to be answered, the same sorts of questions that had to be answered for digital music and still need to be answered for digital books — how do we get the ability to buy a comic and read it in another app, on another platform, etc?

Reading between the lines a bit, the bigger story here is that Microsoft is actively developing a way for Android users to make the (free) switch to Microsoft's mobile platform without having to buy a Lumia handset.