Kobo gives more flexibility and
control over the eBook reading experience, but the advanced options may be overwhelming for some users.
Check out our ebook reading experience where you can customize a bunch of options to have full
control over your ebook experience.
This is sort of a big deal because KoReader brings a whole lot to the party... like 2 column landscape, night mode, Kobo's * complete *
control over the ebook experience (as you say in the video) within KoReader, * very * easy ebook organization (KoReader understands folders so organizing a library is trivial) AND a * much * better PDF reader with text reflow.
* for this to work, you'll need to give me a lot of
control over the ebook pricing for the first month; and I probably can only take on books with real commercial appeal
Under these various menus gives you more flexibility and
control over your ebook experience.
«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.»
Under these various menus, it gives you more flexibility and
control over your ebook experience.
Also unlike fixed - page PDF files, EPUB files give the reader greater
control over the eBook, with the ability to increase the font size, change the resolution, highlight and copy text and add bookmarks throughout the eBook.
That difference is especially important because the Big Five are the same five publishers which negotiated agency contracts last fall and spring, giving themselves more
control over their ebook prices.
It's expensive and difficult to learn but extremely flexible, giving the designer ultimate
control over ebook and print book design.
Some users prefer to have a bigger
control over an ebook collection, and want to physically store the files on the device they own.
We have
no control over an ebook.
The deal is similar to one struck between Amazon and Simon & Schuster two weeks ago, which gave the publisher significant
control over ebook pricing when it comes into effect in January 2015.
Since early May Amazon has been locked in a standoff with the French publishing house after Hachette refused to give Amazon pricing
control over its ebooks, which would have seen most of their digital titles discounted to less than $ 10 a book.
An Amazon with monopolistic
control over ebooks will be bad for the industry and bad for the readers.
It appears from Simon & Schuster's announcement that Locke will retain
control over his ebook publishing, while print editions of his books will be sold and distributed by Simon & Schuster.
Do you need extra
control over the ebook formatting?
Not exact matches
In my most robust
eBook to date, Yes, You Do Have Options, you'll learn 12 strategies to ensure you don't lose
control over the decision - making process.
eBook sales are down across the board, due to fact that publishers have more
control over the pricing and have driven the prices up.
Once big corporate publishers got
control over their authors
ebook prices they jacked up the price.
Authors, writers, publishers of
eBooks, audiobooks and short texts can... A) sell their
eBook through their author page on XinXii - without author contract - in real - time, without technical skills - with an own authorpage and online shop - enter all information such as description, tags, cover, price... - upload an
eBook in one or multiple formats: PDF, ePub, mobi, doc, xls... - high royalties per download - consolidated real - time sales reports - keeping full editorial and copyright
control or B) sell their
eBook through their author page on XinXii and additionally on major
eBook retailers - we convert
eBooks to the ePub and mobi format for free - we distribute to the leading
eBook - shops all
over the world for free - we provide consolidated sales reports Readers have... - the opportunity to discover new titles in all categories and genres - an easy access to a huge variety of content - can instantly download after purchase - have the opportunity to rate and comment on
eBooks
This new functionality is the latest in a string of enhanced
eBook offerings designed to provide authors with more flexibility and
control over their works.
In a similar way, Amazon jump - started the
ebook market with the Kindle and wanted to keep prices low in order to stimulate the market — and to gain and keep
control over as much of the supply chain as possible so that it could drive sales of Kindles and related devices.
In addition to the variations across retailers and devices, some things you may want to do don't translate to an
ebook because the device gives the user
control over particular features.
What I mean is that publishers may be agitated
over ebook distribution — mainly about price
control — but they don't have an issue with the platform.
Since we will be using only a very small subset of HTML tags, in practice this is very little work but instantly gives you 100 %
control over the look of your final
eBook.
And first a disclaimer: My debut will be 9.99 in
ebook form (something I have no
control over as the author) so that does color my perspective a bit.
We believe you should always have
control over distribution of your work, so you may come and go as you please; all we ask is that you make your
ebook available to members for a minimum period of 90 days.
Like most professional
eBook developers, we have created a proprietary workflow that we can use for almost any project that comes our way, so we have a lot of
control over our final output.
Booktrack is a service that promises to give self - published authors the
control over adding a soundtrack to their
ebooks.
The aspect of putting direct
control over the price of
eBooks into the hands of the publishers, both large and small is ground breaking.
Ebooks are great for everybody except authors because there is no
control over the real sales figures And this situation goes on forever since there is no out of print for a digital book.
Amazon is the largest
ebook seller in the world and is thought to
control over 45 % of the global market.
The New York Times is a Kindle edition, which means you can have full
control over your experience just like an
eBook.
While there was some anger from the indie publishing community at the thought that self - published authors would lose the
control over their books that makes them independent in the first place, the number of authors who signed up caused the number of borrowable
ebooks to skyrocket.
This settlement isn't to be confused with the Department of Justice lawsuit against Apple for colluding with five of the then - Big Six publishers to artificially raise the prices of
ebooks in order to draw some of the
control over the market away from Amazon.
Amazon is clearly winning the
eBook sales race with USA market penetration of
over 75 % and is primarily due to them having
control over their own destiny.
Barnes and Noble is thought to
control 25 % of the US market and generated
over 3 billion dollars with Nook hardware and
ebooks in 2012.
It's unfortunate for the writer who has no
control over pricing but I'm simply not going to pay more for an
ebook than for a hardcopy.
So, I created this FREE online
ebook making tool to help indie authors save some money and have more
control over their publishing.
While aggregators may not give you fine
control over your book's layout, they can at least make life a bit simpler, by giving you an
eBook that is both presentable and free of complications.
Being able to keep most if not all of my rights, keep my
ebook prices reasonable, and have
control over timing, etc..
Said Nicole Passage, Managing Editor of Open Road, «Prior to the past year, we outsourced almost all
eBook conversion, but recently we've begun to adopt internal solutions, allowing us to increase both efficiency and
control over results.»
Ebooks: font control, built in dictionary, near instant access to any book, TTS, cheaper ebooks if you focus on indie authors and free library downloads with my Overdrive app, IQreader to track price of over priced B5 published books for when they price drop to something I can afford,
Ebooks: font
control, built in dictionary, near instant access to any book, TTS, cheaper
ebooks if you focus on indie authors and free library downloads with my Overdrive app, IQreader to track price of over priced B5 published books for when they price drop to something I can afford,
ebooks if you focus on indie authors and free library downloads with my Overdrive app, IQreader to track price of
over priced B5 published books for when they price drop to something I can afford, etc...
With plans ranging from free with a 20 % cut, to as much a $ 199 per month with additional features and benefits, it just might be the answer to major
ebook retailers and the lack of
control over pricing that authors and publishers have felt.
Schools at every level were quick to reject digital textbooks because they felt like they'd lost
control over what materials were used in the classroom, as though letting students use an
ebook on a tablet would become a free - for - all of homemade, unvetted resources.
Today Amazon has a monopoly
control on
eBook Publishing as is witnessed due to one fact, they
control over 90 % of
eBooks sold today, that is a MONOPOLY
over eBooks.
It is the first shot across the purchasing bow in big publishers» efforts to reset
ebook pricing above the loss - leader $ 9.99 price point and retake
control over that pricing by moving from the wholesale selling model to an agency selling model (first reported exclusively in Lunch Deluxe on January 19), at least for
ebooks published simultaneously with new hardcover releases.
The Pottermore strategy as a gateway to sell
ebooks has been a bit of a case study on how to start an e-commerce site and maintain
control over the entire experience.
Self - Published authors can finally have their own
control over formatting their
ebook and submitting it themselves without relying on other companies.