Sentences with phrase «concerns over ebook»

Due to supposed concerns over ebook piracy and the interests of the authors who write these books, several publishers pulled their titles from the OverDrive catalog.

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Others will not even allow libraries to purchase their digital editions, with concerns over how the ebooks will be licensed to the libraries.

Since the most recent advent of digital reading and ebook proliferation, the techno format has been blamed for a drop in reading comprehension scores among grade school students, developmental concerns over children's screen time, and even the overturning of a time - honored pricing and value structure within the... [Read more...]

There were even concerns that the ALA Midwinter conference might see some organized and heated protests by members in the exhibit hall where these publishers have set up booths, but several spoke about the futility of letting feelings over eBook lending become hostile.

Reports that the chain will close three hundred brick - and - mortar stores over the next several years was one of the first real nails in its coffin as far as critics were concerned, and coupled with lagging sales of devices and ebooks, many were certain that it was an indication of the company's doom.

Whether over the original concerns from parents of expensive device damage and enhanced ebooks being likened to video games, or the young adults» own feedback that reading was for paper, devices were for socialization, children's publishing even now is awfully slow to catch up.

OverDrive, which provides a full catalog of ebooks for public and school libraries to lend their patrons to over 15,000 libraries, was stunned this week when Penguin Group demanded that all of their titles be pulled from OverDrive's catalog, claiming that it had «security concerns.»

New concerns are growing among UK publishers over the fair compensation for their authors when it comes to library lending, specifically of ebooks.

This method of ebook distribution and sales has resulted in the much - discussed piracy and spam concerns that some say are apparently threatening to take over the Kindle store.

The first to come up over the holidays and, in many ways, the most concerning was the announced closure of All Romance eBooks and its related sites.

When Penguin announced last week that it was disabling library ebook lending on the Kindle and pulling its latest ebook titles from all library lending platforms, libraries and readers took the hit, but to some observers they were collateral damage in a fight between publishers and Amazon about the control of publishers» titles... Indeed, Penguin's move suggests that the publishing industry's long - simmering concern over Amazon's dominant position and its aggressive new ventures in the ebook market are coming to a boil.

, BB eBooks Voices Concern over Recent Removal of Published eBooks by Amazon, Kobo, and Barnes and Noble

I can not therefore understand the need to steal... I am concerned how this will impact on the audio - and ebook industry over the long term.

Many commentators have claimed that the whole ebook subscription business is unsustainable, but Amazon is in a unique position of never worrying too much over whether it's making a straightforward profit, but instead more concerned about whether it's building business.

While device can boost ebook sales, latest devices intensify concerns over Amazon's increasing dominance of marketplace.

When Smashwords signed a deal last December to supply ebook subscription service Scribd, many Smashwords authors were concerned over possible piracy problems.

This ebook is a compilation of posts written over the last few years concerning the exclusion of farm and ranch workers from Alberta's employment and labour legislation.