Sentences with phrase «books on a variety of devices»

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.»

Even more good news for authors who are self - publishing on the Kindle platform is that Amazon now offers a free Kindle reading app that anyone can download to enable reading Kindle books on a variety of devices including smartphones, tablets, and desktops.

Not exact matches

DIGITAL BOOK AWARD CATEGORY DESCRIPTIONS: Ebook Flowable — These files are made in ePub and / or KF8 without utilizing features such as audio, video, HTML5, Javascript, fixed layout, pop - outs, etc., in order to work on a wide variety of e-reading devices.

While many e-reading platforms aimed at the children's market focus solely on the younger reader content found in many interactive book apps, an unrivaled understanding of the children's book market and the technological know - how to market ebooks for a variety of devices and ages will both have a great deal to do with the expected success of Scholastic's electronic reading application.

Not to be outdone, Amazon is also heading off this morning's launch of the Netflix Families website with news of its own: the company released a progress report on Kindle FreeTime Unlimited, its optional service designed for parents with kids ages 3 - 8 which offers a variety of books, games, educational apps, movies and TV shows that play on Amazon Kindle Fire devices.

The lower color screen will also provide a virtual touch keyboard for searches, annotations to e-books and notes, and for sending books to lend to others using Barnes & Noble e-reader software on a variety of devices, including some BlackBerries, Motorola smartphones and iPhone and iPod touch devices, Lynch said.

As DRM - free books, consumers can read the titles on any portable device that supports digital reading by paying through a variety of platforms, including PayPal, Google, and Amazon.

Being DRM - free means the books will work on a variety of devices.

Apps make books accessible on a variety of devices, the Kindle App for example provides the ability to read you books on a computer, laptop or tablet as well as a Kindle.

E-books to date have mostly been approached as digital versions of print books to be read on a variety of digital devices, with a few bells and whistles — like video.

Rather than feeling like an integrated device targeted at reading books and viewing and listening to media, it feels like a garden - variety tablet with a number of useful reading apps on it.

The bookseller Barnes & Noble supports delivery of books from its e-book store to a variety of devices, but has also developed its own e-reader, the Nook, which runs on the Google - backed Android operating system and will allow wireless downloads via AT&T's wireless network.

Kids also read more using the Kindle because of the variety of books on the device and the instant availability of thousands more, as well as local and timely material like Ghana football scores.

The lower color screen will also provide a virtual touch keyboard for searching, annotating e-books and notes, and lending books to others using Barnes & Noble e-reader software on a variety of devices, including some BlackBerries, Motorola smartphones and iPhone and iPod touch devices, Lynch said.

It all comes down to this... readers (people) will read your ebook on a variety of devices and Apps: and every App and Device will display your book DIFFERENTLY — every one.

I decided to use the Book Creator app since it could easily be exported to a variety of e-book readers such as iBooks so the teachers who teach these students could easily access the iBooks on their classroom iPads or iOS devices.

While you won't enjoy the huge selection of books and periodicals that Amazon's Kindle Store and Amazon Prime make available to Kindle Paperwhite owners, the wide variety of file types that are supported — and therefore vast amount of content that Glo HD users can read on their device — will leave Kobo buyers satisfied with their purchase.

For now, Barnes & Noble has a real lead on Amazon when it comes to helping you read the books you buy on a variety of devices.

In addition to formatting an array of books from a variety of genres, I have developed tests to find out exactly what the Kindle can do, and how to make books look their best on the device.

Other distinctive features include time - limited lending of books between users of the Nook platform, which includes software that runs on a variety of mobile devices, including Apple's iPad.

BCPP produces books in a variety of formats that can be read on multiple devices, including laptops / PCs, smartphones / PDAs, iPhones / iPads, the Nook, the Sony e-reader, and the Amazon Kindle.

-- Joel argues that Amazon's strategy of trying to dominate the digital book business by offering it's Kindle platform on a variety of devices is smart but not sufficient.

The company doesn't have a proprietary ebook format, but rather lets consumers buy and read books in a variety of formats on any device with a web browser.

Books purchased in Amazon Kindle store can also be read on a variety of different devices and platforms including: PC, Mac, iPhone, iPad, Android and Blackberry.

You can then access each other's purchased Kindle books, audio books, and even Amazon App Store apps on Amazon's Kindle eReaders, Kindle Fires, and a variety of Kindle apps for other devices.

Google Play Books now supports audiobooks with Google Assistant support, allowing users to enjoy audiobooks on a variety of devices, including the Google Home smart speaker.