Sentences with phrase «buying electronic books»

And honestly, even at a small percent of available readers buying electronic books, the money was stunning for some writers.

After another year or so, (note, we were about three years in at this point) what started to become clear as electronic books exploded in sales was that readers were buying electronic books in place of mass market paperbacks, the pocket - sized books that sold around $ 7.99.

(AP)-- Amazon.com Inc. is trying to get more people to buy the electronic books that are compatible with its Kindle gadget by offering free software for people to read them on a computer.

Some publishers, like Baen Books, do not use Amazon for e-books, and «force» consumers to buy electronic books exclusively through their own website, and then upload their books into your mobile device by hand.

Ex: Which of the following might persuade you to buy an electronic book reader?

He estimates some 90 percent of U.S. adults haven't yet bought an electronic book, so there's lots of opportunity yet to capture customers.

Hell, in 2011, Americans may even be able to buy electronic books instantly for the equivalent of $.99 in 1975 dollars and argue with the author about it — before the book is even released;) I'm sorry, but what f# * % ing stagnation?

Not exact matches

Nearly every weekday, Elting opens at 10 a.m.. However, on Tuesdays and Thursdays the library opens late at 1 p.m. Library officials also would like to upgrade the public computers, bring in more electronic media and buy more books.

The «what» and «how» of room mockups is a big part of my book, Your Home, Your Style, but the basic gist is this: Having an electronic or paper version of your room where you can play around with your ideas and choices can take the urgency and anxiety out of buying furniture and décor — especially if there are two decision - makers involved.

You will get all the features readers love about Kindle 3G - free 3G wireless, global wireless access, Pearl electronic ink display that's easy to read even in bright sunlight, access to over 950,000 «Buy Once, Read Everywhere» Kindle books - all for just $ 164 - the lowest price for any 3G e-reader.»

The books will play on any electronic device, and can be bought all over the world.

The disappearance of Borders likely will hurt e-book sales as well, since some e-book readers visit bookstores to see what books they might like to read before buying the electronic version, Norris added.

On Christmas Day customers bought more electronic books than hard - copy books on Internet retail giant Amazon.com, the company said in a statement Saturday.

If you wanted a device that would let you download electronic books and carry around your own personal library you could buy a Kindle.

If the consumer wants to buy a book in an electronic format now, you should let the consumer have it.»

There are obvious long term cost savings for the sort of person who buys and reads a fair amount of books buying it in electronic book form.

Even putting the loss of physical sales aside, the customers and community members we've talked to who have bought e-book readers or who buy e-books have been largely guided in what to read by their online sources; they've restricted or pared down their reading lists to accommodate what they can get online; and they've stopped giving books (in physical or electronic form) as gifts to their friends and their children.

The readers won't buy expensive electronic books, so the feedback loop in traditional publishing is that electronic books don't sell well.

Some readers will buy a book in both physical and electronic forms.

(AP)-- Google Inc. is launching a new online service that will let readers buy electronic versions of books and read them on such gadgets as cell phones, laptops and possibly e-book devices.

In certain cases, you can't read the electronic book you buy from one store on a device supported by a competing store.

If a library can buy one electronic copy of a book being used as a course text with a unlimited multiple simultaneous user license, then no student in the class has to go buy the book and the publisher loses all those sales.

But the best you can do with an electronic book is to buy a perpetual license to the content.

And there are so many people who can't buy every book they wan na read, so I'm just wondering if you or Diane may have some creative vision for how we might integrate electronic readers, because they're not going to go away into our public library system.

You wouldn't want to be locked into only buying from one book store for paper books why set yourself up to do it with electronic books.

We still do that now with electronic books by glancing at the blurb and cover, then reading the sample before buying.

I can think of many times I've bought a physical book and wished I had an ebook version with me on a portable electronic device, and vice-versa.

If you like what you see, you can buy an electronic version of the book.

I enjoyed all three, but I would have bought them anyways, and I certainly bought a whole pile of other books — whether electronic, paper or hardcover — during that same time.

This Christmas millions are being spent on persuading us to buy easy - to - read electronic devices like Kindle and iTab, and with more digital books said to have been sold in the US this year than hardbacks we can all see that a publishing revolution is on us.

* why can we buy physical books (paying copyright) from international sources but not buy the electronic version under the same IPR payment rules?

And the expansion continues of electronic book sales around the world every day and more and more people buy readers and smart phones.

If publishers let you download a «free» electronic copy when you bought a book in hardcover, I'd probably buy some books that way, though.

When you «buy» electronic literature, all you receive is the opportunity to read over the shoulder of the real owner, who can close the book whenever they please.

«Amazon.com and Barnes & Noble are working on apps for buying and reading electronic books, even though both companies sell their own e-reading devices and Apple will offer its own iBooks app.

Amazon.com on Thursday announced that it is buying book lovers social network Goodreads in a move that could give Kindle tablets an edge over rival electronic readers.

The New York Times this weekend reported that both Amazon and Barnes & Noble in the U.S. are working on Apple iPad apps for buying and reading electronic books.

When comparing the savings from buying only those two electronic books for this once class, a basic Kindle would pay for itself.

Because the original Kindle was $ 399, it was only a «good deal» for the consumer who read many books on which they could save money by buying electronic.

ELECTRONIC NOTE - TAKING I used to buy all my reference books in paper for the expressed purpose of highlighting.

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.

Books work just fine, and buying them is cheaper than the electronic gadget.

The free application lets iPhone and iPod Touch users read Amazon's e-book titles on their devices, synchronize the books they've bought between Apple's hardware and Amazon's own Kindle electronic readers, and download new titles via the iPhone or iPod Touch browser.

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.»

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If those paper books were also replaced by electronic ones, I'm pretty confident that the saving from all my book buying in a year, by using Amazon rather than Waterstones, would amount — at the very least — to the cost of the WiFi edition of the UK Kindle.

Today the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) published «Digital Books and Your Rights,» a checklist for readers considering buying into the digital book marketplace.

Buy my book «The Real World of Credit» on my website www.waynethecreditguy or go to www.BN.com and get the electronic version on Barnes and Nobles website!

I'm guessing you are considering buying this electronic photo book because you love your dog and want to learn how to help him or her live a longer and healthier life.