Sentences with phrase «digital text books»

It's true that with some ebooks, you may only have access to them for a limited time, but despite this, digital text books still offer tremendous savings.

There are hundreds of thousands of digital text books available for sale on Amazon.com.

The feel of a book is nice, and people like to scribble in the margins, but I would take digital text books over physical ones any day * if I could afford an e-reader big enough to read them on *.

In 2014, eSentral have extended further its activities and pioneered in second generation interactive digital text book for Malaysian Ministry of Education.

Not exact matches

In his new book, The Digital Diet, he cites a barrage of statistics that show technology's pervasiveness in our lives, from the funny (10 % of people 24 and younger believe it's OK to fire off a text during sex) to the serious (16,000 Americans have been killed by texting drivers).

In a world where we update our status, download books and text rather than call, our lives now have a digital dynamic.

Everything in going steady, plus an autographed copy of our bestselling online dating book, «The Perils of Cyber-Dating,» one personalized Digital Matchmaker search, PLUS one - month of unlimited text messages.

In this book, Laurie Davis, online dating coach and founder of eFlirt Expert, will teach you the digital dating essentials — choosing the right site, creating a pow erful profile, texting tricks, staying safe, and more.

Books That Grow offers a diverse digital library with texts that can be read at three to five levels of difficulty.

Those two words could just as easily describe the author's thoughtful affect on Paul Allison's Teachers Teaching Teachers or the degree to which his new book, Crafting Digital Writing: Composing Texts Across Media and Genres, methodically articulates how 4th - 12th grade instructors can introduce technology tools, mentor texts, composing practices, and heuristics for helping students wTexts Across Media and Genres, methodically articulates how 4th - 12th grade instructors can introduce technology tools, mentor texts, composing practices, and heuristics for helping students wtexts, composing practices, and heuristics for helping students write.

The study, titled: Subjective impressions do not mirror online reading effort: concurrent EEG - eyetracking evidence from the reading of books and digital media, measured young and elderly adults reading short texts on three different reading devices, including a paper page, e-reader and tablet computer.

In my post Stopping the Summer Slide in English Language Arts, I provided basic recommendations, from starting digital book clubs to sending home high - interest texts, or even simply staying in touch as often as possible with students through email or social media.

Access to books through digital modes, text - to - speech programs, graphic organizers, OCR (optical character recognition) programs, annotation tools, display options and digital dictionaries are some of the tools that can be used by students.

Waterford expanded and relaunched Curriculet with an innovative and unique External Reader feature that allows students to have the digital learning experience Singer envisioned whether they are using digital text, traditional physical books, or audio books.

Each lesson plan overlays a digital version of the text or stands alone as a side - by - side guide to a physical book.

The Michigan eLibrary provides all Michigan residents with free access to online full - text articles, full - textbooks, digital images, and other valuable research information at any time via the Internet; and provide an easy - to - use interlibrary loan system to allow Michigan residents to borrow books and other library materials for free from participating Michigan libraries.

Informational text - based reading materials include newspaper and magazine articles, textbooks, digital information, nonfiction trade books, and reference books.

Publishers and authors can submit their content and make it available to Kindle customers by using Amazon's new Digital Text Platform (DTP), a fast and easy self - publishing tool that lets anyone upload and sell their books in the Kindle Store.

SEATTLE, Jan 20, 2010 (BUSINESS WIRE)-- Amazon.com (NASDAQ: AMZN) today announced details of a new program that will enable authors and publishers who use the Kindle Digital Text Platform (DTP) to earn a larger share of revenue from each Kindle book they sell.

As they work on their forthcoming titles, the co-founders, who have their own personal projects in development — Lee is working on a book about the struggles of being overly connected in the digital age (eg, texting, IM, e-mail); Love is working on her second novel, about how historians and politicians in the present day contort the history of a failed slave uprising in early 19th century Virginia — continue to experiment with what both the e-book platforms and their own website user experience will look like.

The Kindle Digital Text Platform is a fast and easy self - publishing tool that lets anyone upload and format their books for sale in the Kindle Store.

Here's the video, slides and [expanded, revised] text from my closing remarks at the 2010 Digital Book World Conference back on January 27, 2010.

He has published over a dozen books using Amazon's Digital Text Platform (DTP), and has been featured in numerous articles and blog posts as an author who is making a living off of Kindle.

The DAISY format allows the digital distribution of both text and audio formats and has much more sophisticated Navigational Information than has been typical in commercial e-books or audio books.

The Kindle can only download books from Amazon's store, while Sony's Readers can display texts sold in the «epub» format - an open standard supported by the International Digital Publishing Forum that numerous publishers use to make e-books.

Students will demonstrate their comprehension of a narrative / informational text through the creation of a promotional iMovie Book Trailer - a digital alternative to the traditional book repBook Trailer - a digital alternative to the traditional book repbook report.

Here at the dawn of the economy of the digital story we're still caught up in the idea of books as distinct chunks of text more or less on par with those rectangular paper things so deeply imbued with meaning for centuries.

When you see an error - riddled e-book from a major publisher, it's likely that the book is an older one, and was made by scanning a paper copy of the book and converting it to digital text via optical character recognition (OCR).

-- 2 % statistics figures is no serious argument or trend indication — all consumer agreements are drafted by selling companies and, thus, hugely favor the latter, it's take it or leave it — quoted Apple provision is standard indirect damages exclusion, any damages cases for consumers using digital text documents are unlikely anyway — printed book is always better but it takes space — some educational piece on drawbacks of ebooks and bookstores would serve better purpose

A better argument would be for books not yet converted to digital or the real life issue of pdfs being exactly the size they were originally printed making the text absurdly small on a 6 or 7 inch e-reader.

Some of these include the tenth - century Book of Deer, which is probably the oldest surviving Scottish manuscript and contains the earliest known examples of written Gaelic; the thirteenth - century Life of Edward the Confessor, which contains masterpieces of illumination; the Cairo Genizah collections, which are glimpses into the everyday live of a Jewish community in Egypt over a period of 1,000 years; digital versions of its Islamic and Sanskrit collections of both secular and religious texts, including some of the earliest surviving Qur» ans; the Nash Papyrus, which contains one of the oldest texts from the Hebrew Bible, the Codex Bezzae, one of the most important New Testament manuscripts; and others.

Bookerly makes digital text appear the closest to a real book, but some people find that text seems to blur this way.

It is possible to see the foundations of the modern eBook from such activity, as the necessity for reflowable text when reading on a Portable Digital Assistant (PDA) led to the formation of the Open eBook Publication Structure (a precursor to the EPUB format) in 1999, and several portable devices such as the Game Boy Advance, PalmPilot and SoftBook had facilities for modems, allowing readers to receive books without using a computer, often seen as one of the core selling points of the original Kindle.

First and foremost, many books were placed on Amazon's Kindle Store by publishers through MobiPocket instead of the Kindle Direct Publishing (KDP, formerly Digital Text Platform or DTP).

With the notable exceptions of The Oxford Companion to the Book (2010) and Bettley's The Art of the Book (2001), most literature in the fields of book history and topics concerning the history of writing and digital textuality, including studies of books as artistic objects and of the material page make no mention of comics at all, in spite of the fact they do refer to other forms of multimedia or text - and - image publications such as collage books and illustrated boBook (2010) and Bettley's The Art of the Book (2001), most literature in the fields of book history and topics concerning the history of writing and digital textuality, including studies of books as artistic objects and of the material page make no mention of comics at all, in spite of the fact they do refer to other forms of multimedia or text - and - image publications such as collage books and illustrated boBook (2001), most literature in the fields of book history and topics concerning the history of writing and digital textuality, including studies of books as artistic objects and of the material page make no mention of comics at all, in spite of the fact they do refer to other forms of multimedia or text - and - image publications such as collage books and illustrated bobook history and topics concerning the history of writing and digital textuality, including studies of books as artistic objects and of the material page make no mention of comics at all, in spite of the fact they do refer to other forms of multimedia or text - and - image publications such as collage books and illustrated books.

Total Boox's reading application allow you to purchase a full - text digital literature and electronic books, by pre-paying a certain amount of money, to be spent against actual viewing of any pages of such Digital Content (as defined below), in accordance with the portions and / or segments actually viewed digital literature and electronic books, by pre-paying a certain amount of money, to be spent against actual viewing of any pages of such Digital Content (as defined below), in accordance with the portions and / or segments actually viewed Digital Content (as defined below), in accordance with the portions and / or segments actually viewed by you.

The Company announced that authors and publishers around the world can now use the self - service Kindle Digital Text Platform (DTP) to upload and sell books in English, German and French to customers worldwide in the Kindle Store.

For some major handicaps — for example locked - in syndrome — access to print books is nearly impossible, whereas access to digital books is easy because the text can be scrolled down automatically, for example.»

That's why it's important to hire proofreaders to comb through edited text * after * the book has been formatted for print or digital.

E-book readers are portable devices, usually with energy - frugal black - and - white display screens optimized to show the electronic text of digital books.

All books have become eligible automatically, however if you are using the 35 % royalty option, and have not opted into lending through other devices, you may disable lending within your Amazon Digital Text Platform (DTP) account.

What I find missing from the epub development point of view is the ability to mark up text with notes, to annotate our digital books, to have sticky notes and colored tabs hanging out of the pages.

The ISTC (International Standard Text Code) is a new ISO identifier that identifies the underlying textual content of the book and is therefore shared by all digital and physical manifestations of the same title.

More of a supplemental interface to traditional or digital texts than as a typical book, digital or otherwise, LearnSmart engages student learners in personalized ways that not only help them study through knowledge testing, but help them achieve in a timely way by gearing reinforcement strategies through student confidence in the material.

Each book in the HybridBook program features not only the core text of the novel, but extensive additional material rendered in digital form and called the Melville House Illuminations.

Last October, Borders had also entered the self publishing genre by setting up Borders Publishing in conjunction with Book Brewer which was in line with Amazon's Digital Text Publishing Platform or the B&N's PubIT program.

Preference for Library purchase model for ebooks, with much of market unclear on best option — 40 % want to purchase ebooks in the Library model, in which the school owns the texts, and students can check books in and out of a «digital library» on their devices.

Most people can walk into a library, pick up a book and read it, but a person with a visual impairment or a reading disability such as dyslexia must rely on computer assistance, using software that reads digital text out loud, enlarges the type on a screen or converts the text to braille.

Several digital distribution sites have spoken out on how hard they work to filter out fraudulent texts, and have so far pointed to that as the only way to currently stop would - be book thieves.

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