For true bookworms spring is the time to read
books from electronic devices, sitting somewhere on the veranda of mountain cottage and breathing the fresh air.
Not exact matches
Ebook is short for
electronic book, a document you read
from your PC, Computer, or other
electronic device.
Kindle The Amazon Kindle is a black - and - white
electronic reading
device that allows you to carry thousands of
books with you, downloading
from either a WiFi connection or through 3G service.
HarperCollins Publishers is negotiating with Apple Inc. to make
electronic books available for the introduction of a new tablet
device from Apple, according to people familiar with the situation, posing a challenge to Amazon.com Inc..
(AP)-- Amazon.com Inc. is offering free
books or $ 30 to Kindle customers whose copies of the George Orwell novels «1984» and «Animal Farm» were deleted
from their
electronic reading
devices in July.
«Convert your production files
from PDF to EPUB,» they hear, «and your
books will almost magically become marketable for reading on nearly every conceivable
electronic device from the Kindle to the iPhone, and everything in between!»
OPDS enables the aggregation, distribution, and discovery of
books, journals, and other digital content by any user,
from any source, in any
electronic format, on any
device.
If their arguments are only that
electronic devices «distract passengers
from listening to safety announcements» and that they can «become dangerous projectiles», you might as well ban any good old paper
book — which they have never banned during takeoff or landing.
Sony's Readers have another feature that's not present in the Kindle: All of the
devices are capable of displaying digital
books that have been borrowed
from thousands of public libraries that lend
electronic books.
While I'm a big believer that periods of unconnectedness
from electronic devices are one of the most important sanity - maintainers these days, I think we're also moving past the days when it was enough to write a great
book, publish it, and call it a day.
In certain cases, you can't read the
electronic book you buy
from one store on a
device supported by a competing store.
Initial indicators
from the
Book Industry Study Group more than a year ago demonstrated the young adults were the least likely demographic to adopt digital reading, preferring instead to use their
electronic devices for socialization rather than education.
AT&T Inc. planned to announce Wednesday that it will support an
electronic book reading
device due early next year
from Plastic Logic Ltd., a Mountain View, Calif. - based startup based on British display technology.
That's when Amazon rolled out its first Kindle e-reader, upending the
book market once again by turning the focus
from costly paper
books to
electronic ones that could be delivered quickly and cheaply to customers on a reading
device.
There are many costumers out there just like me who want to have the
book experience on an
electronic device and they will continue to go with Kindle because the other options are uconfortable for reding, to bright for prolongued reading, slow, distracting AND they do not have 3G (let alone internatinally... I'm
from Mexico).
Buy a
book — printed or
electronic —
from independent bookshops and choose a reading
device that doesn't lock you into buying
from one retailer alone.
An ebook reader is a dedicated
device that lets you read
electronic books — usually those that you buy
from the reader's own ebook store, but also some that you can download elsewhere.
(For instance,
from Ken Auletta's New Yorker piece on publishing and the iPad intro: «Amazon had been buying many e-books
from publishers for about thirteen dollars and selling them for $ 9.99, taking a loss on each
book in order to gain market share and encourage sales of its
electronic reading
device, the Kindle.»
Also a little tip, if you take your Kindle to read
from because... or your iPad, you can't read
from a
book because of the page noises, you have to read
from something
electronic, turn off the Wi - Fi on all your
devices.
A few years ago, when I was quite active on Amazon Marketplace selling
books and
electronic devices, I opened a savings account at ING Direct for my daughter so that I can save the money
from selling those stuff -LSB-...]
From booking your travel to protecting your
electronic devices, follow these 10 tips to safeguard your identity on Spring Break.
It seems that soon all manner of printed materials,
from newspapers to school
books, will be available on an
electronic reading
device.
«Fastcase's strategy to introduce
books in the legal space is a timely move,... as consumers increasingly look to switch off
from the pressure of social media and
electronic devices in their downtime,» Logue wrote.