Sentences with phrase «book reader devices»

As handheld electronic book reader devices become more popular and widely accepted, early adopters of these devices may upgrade to newer, more capable versions of these readers.

ECTACO jetBook is a series of electronic - book reader devices developed by Ectaco.

However, we are at precisely the same stage in the digital book reader device market as when Audible saw the first challengers to its portable digital audio player emerge, in 1998.

Not exact matches

This book provides practical solutions that allow readers to better leverage the devices they already carry with them to increase their efficiency at home, work, and all the places in - between.

The web - based book format allows readers to view the Journal of Attachment Parenting via any device with access to the Internet.

This ingenious bit of cross-platform magic, originally released in 2012 and recently updated, allows a reader to switch between reading an e-book purchased through Amazon and listening to the book's audio narration seamlessly in these apps on any device.

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If you can't find a specific book or publication in audio form, computer software or separate handheld devices with optical character recognition can scan documents and read them aloud using speech synthesizers or screen readers.

This is a resource that can help students with their revision of any literature book they study and helps them to learn and identify quotes and devices used as well as the effect on the reader.

In the short term, the migration from print to ePub3 was less about the books that more interactivities and accessible content, but was much more towards slicing the cost of production and delivery of the book across the wide range of devices like tablets and smartphones that modern readers were using.

If you publish your book in all of these markets, you'll reach your potential audience across ebook reader devices and channels.

While talks about cutting - edge smartphones dominated last year's Digital Book Conference — the International Digital Publishing Forum's annual e-publishing conference in New York — the focus of the morning session this year was market feedback on the progress of devices like the Sony Reader and the introduction of new ones, such as Telecom Italia's pocket - sized Librofonio, which is expect -LSB-...]

Twenty - seven percent of respondents said they share their opinion of books on Facebook, Twitter, or book sites; 50 percent of device - owning readers under the age of 40 have posted online comments.

Use for Kobo eReader, BlackBerry devices, Apple's iBooks app running on iOS devices, Google Books app running on Android and iOS devices, Barnes & Noble Nook, Sony Reader, Adobe Digital Editions, Lexcycle Stanza, and various other lesser known readers.

Both systems allow reading of books on a range of devices, not just e-readers, and invite readers to buy books from their separate e-book warehouses.

The model is device agnostic — meaning the reader can download the book onto a tablet, an e-book reader or a smartphone.

Oyster's beautiful all - in - one experience for discovering and reading ebooks connects readers to books they'll love and lets them read on the devices that already go everywhere with them.

Sony's Reader Digital Book and Amazon's Kindle are battling over their reading devices and the books that they offer.

On Monday, Adobe released Adobe Reader Mobile 9, which improves the way smartphones and handheld devices display books and other documents that use the open PDF format created by Adobe.

It's something to watch while the jury is out on whether the killer ebook reader will be a purpose built device dedicated to reading, or a multi-purpose device that lets you read books, listen to music, surf the net, make phone calls, write your great novel and make your coffee.

Lock Orientation: By default the document with display according to device orientation (which way round the reader is holding their tablet) but for some types of document you may wish to force a book to be fixed in either portrait or landscape mode here by entering the word «true».

I once asked book industry maven Mike Shatzkin about my rather eccentric views on all this, and he told me in an ensuing email: «You may very well be right about the differences between paper - reading and screen - reading, in trerms of brain chemistry, but just as nobody in the past heeded the calls that radiation and cancer might impact cellphone use, do you think makers of device readers will listen to you or even care if you are right?»

It's coming up on four years since Comixology's app appeared on the iPhone, and that 2009 release was the beginning of a beautiful friendship between comic - book readers and their mobile devices.

«From OverDrive's world headquarters in northeast Ohio to the 50 countries in which our library and school partners reside, we will continue to connect readers with books and institutions by supporting all users and all popular devices, while promoting open industry standard formats and best practices.

I especially like the point that this methodology can be invisible to the reader and does not interfere with the ability to read / move the book to any device (that can read ePub books).

While it might seem strange that a nearly 200 - page book is just a series of questions, the plot holds together well with a strong narrative and definite hook, even if many readers might find the literary device a tad gimmicky.

The Virtual Bookstand and Newsstand will enable readers to select and buy their books either via their smartphones or tablet devices.

We sign up, stock and sell the readers and accessories, and the store gets a (tiny) commission on all Kobo books ever purchased for that device.

E-book readers are not books and there is no logic in trying to attemp creating a facsimile of an electronic device.

It's the perfect device for a library book reader who likes to have her hands free (I lay it on my lap or stand it up on a table to read while eating, for example, or just because I can!

«Offering books in the Windows Store is one of the highest potential sales channels to come to the market in several years; it will be a great opportunity for our publishers to get their books into more readers» hands across multiple devices.»

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.

There are a couple of limitations in that not every book is available to preview and there is no functionality for readers to send a sample to their kindle or device so they don't have to read the sample on a desktop computer.

Here is the message: «Text in your book is unreadable for readers using color devices and reading on a black background.

They do have the best software readers out there — don't get me started on the Nook software reader that can't even center text and will crash in 9 out of 10 times — but the way a book looks in the reader is not representative of the device at all?

For example, e-book giant Amazon uses DRM which only allows readers to view books on Kindles or approved devices with the Kindle app.

Book publishers have been in talks with Apple and are optimistic about being included in the computer, which could provide an alternative to Amazon's Kindle, Sony's Reader and a forthcoming device from Plastic Logic, recently allied with Barnes & Noble.

And even if they don't, they're going to sell 50 million metric shitloads of Kindle books because you don't even need a Kindle to read Kindle books... Amazon has readers for the iPad (which is way better than Apple's iBooks app IMO), iPhone, Android devices, Blackberry, WinPhone 7, Windows, and OS X. I never would have predicted it, but I am a firm convert to Kindle books... and I don't even have a Kindle.

Kindle is certainly not the first digital reading device — Sony has a digital reader that is sold in Borders book store.

I know the functionality exists on these devices to read blogs, magazines, newspapers, etc., but they're marketed as book readers (Arment even calls them «ebook readers» instead of «e-readers»), the user experience is optimized for book reading, and the companies (esp.

So the Kindle proposition is this: You pay for downloadable books that can't be printed, can't be shared, and can't be displayed on any device other than Amazon's own $ 400 reader — and whether they're readable at all in the future is solely at Amazon's discretion.

Hopefully, the absence of some major authors from eBook stores will be temporary — but in the meantime, you could be forgiven for thinking that publishers really do want to hand all the cards to Amazon — they're the cheapest and, for whatever reason, they are now the ones with the biggest range of books, some of which UK readers can not, right now, buy electronically in a format compatible with their own devices.

If I got paid for the book, and as long as that reader only does that to their local copy on their own device or computer, fabulous.

An ebook includes what you might call a system table of contents, so the ebook reader devices can do a drop - down table of contents.The notion is that in an ebook — because you don't have the tactile setup of pages that you would have in a physical book where you know where you are — in ebooks you want to make it easy for people to get to the parts of a book, and having a table of contents file is the easiest way to do that.

Some e-reading devices allow the reader to set their device to night mode, which will display your book's text as reverse type if it's set to Black.

Today's Bone Walker major news item: if you're a reader of ebooks on Kobo devices and / or apps, OR if you're Android - inclined and like to get your digital media from Google Play, then the book is now available for preorder on platforms FOR YOU!

Amazon sells Wi - Fi - only or Wi - Fi plus 3G readers, so books can be downloaded without having to synchronise the device to a PC or Mac.

During giveaways, I've found that there are plenty of my readers who faced similar confusion about transferring the books to their phones or devices.

Readers tell the app which device they want the book delivered to, and Instafreebie does the rest.

3) Two years ago Tim O'Reilly predicted that «Unless Amazon embraces open e-book standards like epub, which allow readers to read books on a variety of devices, the Kindle will be gone within two or three years.»