The company can expand Kindle internationally, as it's been doing already, and it can still grab
a certain number of ebook newbies.
With traditional library lending, the library buys
a certain number of eBook copies of a particular title.
Not exact matches
Before the arrival
of the «agency pricing» model that Apple negotiated with
ebook publishers — which allowed the publishers to decide what price Apple would charge for their books on the iPad — Amazon had deals that paid a specific wholesale price to publishers for a
certain number of copies, and then it was able to charge whatever it wanted for the books in the Kindle store.
One
of my personal favorite things about
eBooks is how easy it is to find your way around in them; even a three word phrase such as «not to be» only appears twice in Hamlet, so telling everyone how to find a
certain place in an
eBook is much easier than on paper, as giving the page
number in a paper book only takes you within a thousand or two thousand characters
of where you want to go.
Whenever an audiobook or
ebook is purchased on the Kobo website or on an e-reader, a
certain number of SuperPoints are put in customer accounts.
That means you sell them, in essence, the right to loan out your
eBook for one year, or for a
certain number of loans.
Many books and
ebooks often become free after a
certain number of years.
It is essentially a software lock that is placed on your
ebook that only allows it to be downloaded a
certain number of times.
This
number can be made up
of any combination
of ebooks or print versions
of the book and is not limited to a
certain timeframe.
Based on personal experience, a
certain number of people find reading books on a computer screen to be awkward so even if a user does find the
eBook in the library catalogue, he or she may not wish to use it.