Sentences with phrase «e-book adoption»

I'm working on a survey of parliamentary and government libraries to check the state of e-book adoption in these communities.

By Edward Nawotka Earlier this month we wondered why the UK was so far behind other countries in e-book adoption.

But as Kobo CEO Michael Serbinis told CNET, Europe is generally about two years behind the US in terms of e-book adoption.

And if most foreign countries are at 1 percent e-book adoption, there's nowhere to go but up.

E-book adoption is not going to follow the same path in every country.

But a new report from O'Reilly Media, «The Global eBook Market: Current Conditions & Future Projections» and discussions at the Frankfurt Book Fair last week suggest that foreign countries won't necessarily follow an identical but delayed path to widespread e-book adoption.

Every pronouncement about e-book adoption is flawed for the same reason.

They're not moving forward with their transition plan, they're just trying to protect the status quo by fighting e-book adoption.

So they seem intent on stalling e-book adoption as long as possible (as evidenced by them trying to raise prices in the face of clear consumer outcry, attaching invasive DRM to their titles, disabling TTS access, delaying e-book releases, and generally releasing poorly - formatted scans of physical books).

Predictably, these businesses have responded by trying to fight e-book adoption, trying to protect their print book business for as long as they can, and squeeze out a few more profitable quarters.

This article explores the link between digital rights management (DRM) and rates of e-book adoption in academic libraries.

But I knew it wasn't that publishers didn't «get» e-books... OK, it wasn't just that publishers didn't get e-books: they are actively trying to forestall e-book adoption as long as they can.

E-book adoption among college students has remained consistently, almost puzzlingly low.

[FairPlay] is another in a varied number of DRM schemes that will ultimately confuse the consumer and harm e-book adoption,» said Paul Biba, editor of the e-book blog TeleRead.

Is Digital Rights Management (DRM) Impacting E-Book Adoption in Academic Libraries?

With bookstores closing and e-book adoption still rising, this is a trend heading only in one direction.

This is not to say that e-book adoption is plummeting, far from it.

One of the big barriers in e-book adoption in Indonesia is primarily due to the e-book price from local authors.

Why is Europe lagging behind in e-book adoption?

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& ldquo; E-book adoption will vary widely by demographic and genre, & rdquo; he said.

The German market has one of the highest e-book adoption ratings in Europe and has a thriving startup scene.

One of the barriers of e-book adoption in Brazil is the high import fees on e-readers and tablets.

In a Skype call from Maine to Scotland on August 18, 2010, we discussed the pace of e-book adoption in the U.K., the pricing of e-books, and more.

If you mean to say that you think that the current family of devices out there is inadequate and preventing e-book adoption I have to disagree.

e-Book adoption may have plateaued in Canada and the United States but the digital format is growing in Europe and Russia.

Not exact matches

After two years available only in hardcover and e-book formats, my publisher, Rowman & Littlefield, is releasing The Open - Hearted Way to Open Adoption in paperback in a few weeks.

Building on our extensive experience with multiplatform e-book solutions, we will continue making every possible contribution to the widespread adoption of Readium Web and Readium SDK.»

If approved, «the lawsuit would represent any purchaser of an e-book published by a major publisher after the adoption of the agency model by that publisher.»

Hachette argued that the landscape for e-book sales had changed positively since the adoption of the agency model in 2010, writing, «Two years ago, Amazon effectively had a monopoly on the sale of eBooks and eReaders, and was selling products below cost in an effort to exclude competitors.

By working together, we're making progress toward a goal that's far more important than driving adoption of e-books: making college more affordable and improving student performance.»

e-Reader adoption on a worldwide scale is still fairly strong, despite the fact that e-book sales on trending downwards.

In this further description, the TED staff points out some important concepts, particularly one: «The mass adoption of new e-book technologies like Kindle and iPad has changed the rules of the game.

Defendants knew that the inclusion of the Price MFN in the Apple Agency Agreements would lead to the adoption of the agency model by all of Publisher Defendants» e-book retailers.

The Publisher Defendants» collective adoption of the Apple Agency Agreements allowed them (facilitated by Apple) to raise, fix, and stabilize retail e-book prices in three steps: (a) They took away retail pricing authority from retailers; (b) they then set retail e-book prices according to the Apple price tiers; and (c) they then exported the agency model and higher retail prices to the rest of the industry, in part to comply with the retail price MFN included in each Apple Agency Agreement.

The audiobook market in the United Kingdom has grown by leaps and bounds over the course of the past five years, but consumer adoption is still very low when compared to e-books.

One of the reasons why e-reader adoption is declining is that all of the retailers that sell e-books all have really good Android / IOS apps that make it easy to purchase stuff.

And it's because of the adoption of e-books and the ability to self - publish.

Conceivably, this adoption of DRM - free content will mean greater access for indie authors in the future to submit their works for e-book lending libraries, but despite the effort and interest in bringing more content to the libraries OverDrive is keeping a tight control over the quality of works in its catalog.

According to the suit, publishers believed that Amazon's wildly popular Kindle e-reader device and the company's discounted pricing for e-books would increase the adoption of e-books, and feared Amazon's discounted pricing structure would permanently set consumer expectations for lower prices, even for other e-reader devices.

Once approved, the lawsuit would represent any purchaser of an e-book published by a major publisher after the adoption of the agency model by that publisher.

I think when it comes right down to it, the low prices of e-books are increasing adoption.

According to the class - action suit, the publishers believed that Amazon's wildly popular Kindle e-reader device and the company's discounted pricing for e-books would increase the adoption of e-books and permanently set consumer expectations for lower prices, even for other e-reader devices.

Obviously prices are coming down so people continue to buy e-books, but for the most part publishers are not making much revenue, but are instead focused on consumer adoption.

One key roadblock to adoption is that e-book vendors are focusing on consumers, not on business.

In the education market, for example, there is steady and growing adoption of all digital formats, including digital databases, e-books, digital curriculum supplements, and mobile applications.

There's still a lot of factors that could affect Kindle adoption — competing devices and services from companies like Apple (AAPL), e-book pricing, Amazon potentially offering Kindle software for other devices, etc..

[164] One obstacle to wide adoption of the e-book is that a large portion of people value the printed book as an object itself, including aspects such as the texture, smell, weight and appearance on the shelf.

(Amazon apparently wanted to subsidize content prices, in part, so that it could move e-reader hardware and spur the adoption of e-books by mainstream users.)

I covered a few of the talks on digital publishing on various blogs: On TeleRead, I discussed some observations about the adoption of e-books by academic (rather than trade) publishers.