Sentences with phrase «consumer ebook market»

The JetBook Color isn't being aimed at the consumer ebook market.

Given the relatively early stage the market is in — especially the consumer ebook market — small ideas that are simple to implement and help to build forward momentum were very welcome.

A new report by Strategy Analytics predicts that the global consumer eBook market will more than double from $ 7 billion in 2013 to $ 16.7 billion in 2020.

epub standard for eBook source files is of major significance and will be critical in the development of the consumer eBook market.

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They don't see the used market in their spreadsheets, just as they don't see growing indie ebook sales there, so they have no idea how their decisions are playing out in consumer behavior.

In the United States and Britain, sales of eBooks represent between a quarter and a third of the consumer book market.

When the dust finally settled from the Department of Justice lawsuit against Apple and five of the then - Big Six publishers for illegally colluding to inflate the price of ebooks, essentially bilking consumers out of hundreds of millions of dollars in an effort to grab some more market share away from Amazon, the terms of the judge's ruling included a caveat.

When the dust finally settled from the Department of Justice lawsuit against Apple and five of the then - Big Six publishers for illegally colluding to inflate the price of ebooks, essentially bilking consumers out of hundreds of millions of dollars in an effort to grab some more market share away from Amazon, the terms... [Read more...]

Unless the CMA is so stupid that it thinks that a market dominance that roughly doubles the price of ebooks at both the low end and the high end of the market isn't hurting consumers, then the full weight of the CMA needs to come down on Amazon like a ton of bricks.

Meanwhile over in Asia, Japan led the eBook markets with 15 % of the country's total consumer book revenues; China and India, meanwhile, lagged far behind at 3 %.

This session, moderated by Mark Coker of Smashwords, will feature a blue ribbon panel of ebook industry experts who will provide attendees diverse opinions on a wide range of ebook industry trends and issues, including DRM, reading device trends, consumer awareness and consumer marketing trends, ebook self - publishing, how Amazon's digital self - publishing offerings might upset the balance of power in traditional print publishing, digital ink technologies, and more.

-- Across the entire US ebook market, ebooks without ISBNs now command a greater share of consumer ebook purchases, reading time, and author earnings than all of the AAP's 1,200 publishers put together, including the Big Five.

In this issue: - Article: «What you Should Not Include in your Non-Fiction Book Proposal,» by Debra W. Englander - New Program Gives Ebooks a Quality Seal for Consumers - Digital Book World Conference — Interesting Facts for Authors - Ben Cameron, Director of Sales and Marketing for UK and Europe, to Speak at Self - Publishing Conference in UK - Display Your Book at the 2013 London Book Fair

If I could hook all of their ebook retail services to Readmill so that all of my purchases are automatically added to my library, then I, as a consumer, can begin to treat them as a single market.

That message is frankly tough to communicate to the direct market in a way that reaches the consumer level, whereas in the ebook channel, I wouldn't say it's easy, but you can actually have that communication.

The Copenhagen Post published an article this week about an ebook startup idea that seems to have already come and gone in the minds of other consumer markets.

It might work this time because it's taking off in a market that isn't known for being major ebook consumers yet.

«We designed Blio to offer the eBook market a device that fully maintains the integrity of printed media by offering a rich and visually - compelling experience to consumers.

In an even bolder move, Rowling published the ebooks through her own site only a few weeks ago and gave several other online retail booksellers the take - it - or - leave - it deal of a lifetime: other retailers» customers can go to their favorite online book sites to purchase the books, which diverts them to Pottermore for the sale, then the original retailers will still send the ebooks to the consumers» e-reader devices without requiring the downloading to a computer and transferring via cable that many customers have to rely on when purchasing books from sites other than the one that markets their e-readers.

In Asia, Japan led the eBook markets with 15 % of the country's total consumer book revenues; China and India, meanwhile, lagged far behind at 3 %.

The new tax rate went into effect earlier this month, and hopefully other markets (including states in the US who still tax books) will see the benefits of making book purchasing — either in print or in ebook — a more lucrative choice for consumers.

For ebook reading consumers, we came across brand - new or limited edition devices from four different companies today, including Bookeen, Imcosys, Tolio, and txtr; txrt actually spoke at length about pending plans for a subscription - based reading service, highlighting several features that their platform will offer that the slow - to - adoption subscription reading market has lacked.

With so much of the ebook market and news focused on a US - centric approach to digital reading, it's easy to forget that much of the world does not purchase or consumer ebooks in the same way.

The buzzwords this year were direct - to - consumer book sales, ebook subscriptions, and marketing and discovery.

«This upgrade opens the door to a whole host of paid and free content from third - party eBook stores, web sites and even public libraries,» said Steve Haber, senior vice president of consumer product marketing for Sony Electronics in Sony's statement issued earlier today.

«We're excited to work with Adobe to pioneer new applications for eBooks and other digital documents,» said Ron Hawkins, vice president of portable reader systems marketing at Sony Electronics, Inc. «This collaboration will give us the opportunity to expand our offerings to a larger audience and new markets, allowing individual consumers, businesses, and other customers to take advantage of the portability and ease of use of Sony's Reader products with a wider spectrum of content.»

There's no reason to think that allowing Amazon to corner the market in ebooks will be good for the consumer or authors, or anyone else.

Ebooks are surely gaining popularity among the masses, but when it comes to the number of ebook reader releases in the market, those are not as popular as a regular tablet, leaving consumers with not that many choices in the first place.

Bowker, a company that has released some vital reports on studies conducted across various aspects of the publishing industry, spoke to GoodEReader at Digital Book World about the staggering growth of ebooks in the market, the metadata requirements that help a reading audience find the books that are being produced, and the overall buying and reading preferences of consumers.

While these fans might be a dying breed as more and more consumers turn to the price and convenience of ebooks, the publishing industry is still feeling the effects of a market driven by print fans.

Digital publishing accounts for only 20 % of the publishing market in South Korea, so an initiative like this one may increase the consumer market for ebooks of all kinds, not just academia or non-fiction reference.

Where books on current events or notable figures would often take months to reach the market, long after the fervor had died down, ebooks are reaching consumers» bookshelves within hours of an event.

According to Alexander Malis, president of Euroset, Russia's largest mobile phone and e-book retailer, suggests that as the ebook market expands, Russian consumer's superior purchasing power gives it enough potential to potentially overtake China to become the world's second largest market.

After spectacular growth in the last few years, the ebook reader market is on an alarmingly precipitous decline, sent reeling by more nimble tablet devices that have gained the ardent patronage of consumers, according to an IHS iSuppli Consumer Electronics special report from information and analytics provider IHS.

The rapid growth — followed by the immediate collapse — of the ebook market is virtually unheard of, even in the notoriously short life cycle of products inhabiting the volatile consumer electronics space.

When readers / consumers see the abundance of ebooks available, it makes the market bigger and better for all authors.

Eventually, the retail book market will be a landscape where even lower - priced ebooks are a luxury item that consumers can no longer afford.

On the consumer side, the recent increase in price from $ 9.99 to $ 14.99 for ebooks from major publishers has likely dampened sales in what he called a «maturing market.»

«Competition is not served by permitting a market entrant to eliminate price competition as a condition of entry, and it is cold comfort to consumers that they gained a new ebook retailer at the expense of passing control over all ebook prices to a cartel of book publishers.»

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«We are excited to be able to deliver an end - to - end eReading experience to the German market and to be able to offer the largest German eBook selection to the German consumer,» continued Serbinis.

posted at Marketing Christian Books, saying, «eBooks lost a little bit of sales ground in the third quarter of 2014, according to data from the latest survey of book - buying behavior from Nielsen Books & Consumers.

Consumer behavior is always tricky to understand and for the ebook market we have very little data.

Whether it's dynamic interactive children's ebook apps that are floundering for attention in the app world, or indie authors who work their social media channels to market their books, consumers can't purchase content if they can't find it.

Analysts believe Google's eBooks service could shake up the market Amazon and others have cultivated if Google chooses to create an ad - supported media cloud storefront where consumers procure TV, books and eventually music.

While children's books may not be the main source of ebook sales for publishers, many are developing the market, knowing that today's app book reader is tomorrow's ebook consumer.

App ebooks will just fracture an already too fractured literary market that is in dire need to an international standard that works on virtually any ereader or tablet consumers already own.

Richardson feels that this relationship between interactive ebooks and films can be used as a vital marketing tool for the film industry by generating consumer interest in films before the hit the box office.

The smart money all this time, however, has been that there are genres and markets for both print and ebooks, and that different factors will lead consumers to make purchasing decisions of one over the other.