Sentences with phrase «e-book buying»

We aim to facilitate e-book buying and reading on multiple devices.»

The study showed that the impact on e-book buying was inconclusive - e — book borrowers tended to already buy high numbers of e-books, with a less than a third of people saying they were less likely to buy e-books in future, and the same number saying there were no more or less likely to buy e-books.

The page revealed a lot of interesting data about my e-book buying habits: what I bought and how much I paid for the books.

Meanwhile, e-book power buyers make up 35 percent of the overall e-book buying population, but they drive 60 percent of overall e-book purchases.

All told that's five major competitors vying for your e-book buying dollar.

What it means is that there is still a large portion of the e-book buying public that wants a dedicated e-b0ok device.

As explained by the Association of American Publishers, the large January sales and huge February sales were a result of post-Xmas e-book buying:

The experience of the Kindle in the UK shows the pent - up demand for affordable devices and a streamlined e-book buying process.

Ervin said users of e-readers tend to favor e-book buying rather than borrowing, since the purchasing process is relatively quick and easy.

Otherwise, I guess this is an excuse for my ridiculous e-book buying habits («someday e-books might not even be offered!»).

Digital watermarking also personalizes the e-book buying experience for consumers, because every version of the book is personalized.

«Young people are obsessed with value for money [but] their second obsession is convenience, and this is something also that publishers may be able to work on: how seamless is e-book buying on a young person's favourite device,» further added Mitchell.

Samantha Shannon, writing in The Guardian, for example, suggests that as with other goods and services, consumers should have to live with the e-books they buy:

Will an e-book bought from Amazon be in the archive forever?

For instance, e-books bought from Barnes & Noble, for now, work only on the nook e-reader — not other popular e-readers such as the Sony Reader, even though both use Adobe's DRM.

And the more DRM - encumbered e-books you buy, the less likely you are to dump Amazon for another e-book retailer since you are so heavily invested in Kindle books already.

In order to read the e-books you buy you have to download the HarperCollins Reader App for Android or iOS.

Most of the e-books I buy are between 2.99 and 7.99 (although the later is only for more established writers).

In a few months the company will be launching an online bookstore, where you can purchase content to your computer and then plug the e-reader into it to sync over all of the e-books you buy.

Add in e-books bought on impulse and the modal average is likely 30 titles.

Amazon backed down — though not before decrying Macmillan's «monopoly» over its books — and restored the print and e-book buy buttons.

We trust that the e-books we buy today will be easily accessible five years from now.

A open universal system that doesn't lock you into there ecosystem which would prevent you from taking the e-book you buy (that are yours because you pay for them) from one system to nether.

In the end, I am very surprised that so few people are even opening an e-book they bought from Kobo.

@Lynne Connolly: I always add stuff to Calibre (it's pretty much the only way I remember what e-books I bought, since I buy from 7 different places), and I've converted mobi files maybe twice.

Bestselling author Joe Konrath is in the process of fully developing a new system for libraries that will allow them to have 100 % ownership of the e-books buy.

Once your accounts are linked, you can import in all of the e-books you bought from that specific retailer and they will be available to read in your device's library.

Furthermore, if you want to redownload an e-book you bought from Barnes & Noble, you'll have to provide the credit card number that you used to buy it originally.

Amazon says of the latter: «This program allows you to give your customers a choice between digital and physical books, offer them access to a wide selection of e-books, and profit from every e-book they buy on their new device, from your store or on the go.»

They don't want to have to go through a lot of hoops, some of the technically illegal, to read an e-book bought from Amazon on their Nook or from B&N on their Kindle.

No copying, no pirating, just me reading the e-book I bought today 10 years from now.

So, if it has DRM, you'd be blocked from converting a MOBI e-book you bought from Amazon to the ePub format to read on a Nook (and vice versa).

Depending on how many e-books you buy and what types of printed books you used to buy ($ 25 hardcovers, used books, or the library?)

On the other hand, most best - selling books by large publishers do have DRM attached, and you can only read them on the family of devices you bought them for: so e-books bought from Amazon will work on any Kindle (or Kindle 2, 3, or 10), and B&N e-books will work on the Nook.

Most e-books I buy are less expensive than print books anyway, and I'd much rather save a couple bucks up front than hope I can try to sell a used paperback for more than a pittance.

Even those of us who understand that e-books we buy are actually licensed are generally OK with the situation, because of all the safeguards I've described above.

And that's why I don't put DRM on my files (NOTE: e-books you buy directly from my website have no DRM, and neither do my e-books at Amazon, B&N, or Smashwords.

So, while Nooks and Sony eReaders both read the ePub file format, an e-book bought from B&N that has DRM attached can not be read on the Sony eReaders!

But today most e-books you buy are locked onto a specific device, making it impossible to switch from, for example, a Kindle to a Sony Reader or vice versa.

And while users of iPads or Android tablets like the Nexus 7 can read e-books they bought on Amazon by downloading a special Kindle app, those e-books must compete with the ones offered in the Apple or Android stores.

Amazon Source offers two different packages for physical retailers: a «general retail program» aimed at consumer electronics shops (i.e. markets more interested in hardware than software) that offers Kindle devices at a 9 % discount from their suggested retail price and accessories at a 35 % discount, and a «bookseller program», which only offers a 6 % discount on the price of hardware but keeps the 35 % discount on accessories and adds 10 % commission on every e-book bought by customers from Kindles bought at the bookseller's shop.

If libraries own the books they purchase from an approved RH retailer, then do consumers own the e-books they buy from Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Kobo, and other online bookstores?

Apple rejected Sony's iPhone application, which would have let people buy and read e-books bought from the Sony Reader Store.

Users can access all the e-books they bought so far from their Amazon account and then download them onto the iPhone.

Not exact matches

Calls to action — whether leading the reader to download an e-book, or buy a product — are a key component of content marketing; and when writers know they'll be rewarded for positive results, they'll often work harder and create call - to - actions that convert to fulfill their Marketing and Sales Impact portions of their quota.

It's my favorite e-book reader of all, and the top pick in our buying guide because it's so lightweight and easy to carry.

When you buy an e-book from Amazon, it comes in a closed, proprietary format — that e-book will only work with Amazon's Kindle e-reader, or with the individual devices for which Amazon is gradually rolling out applications (there's a Kindle app for the iPhone, for example, but still nothing for the BlackBerry).

Reality: My entertainment costs included things like visiting the Museum of Broken Relationships ($ 6.62), seeing Milky Chance perform ($ 26.86), attending a coffee fair ($ 4.15), tipping a free tour guide ($ 20) and buying some e-books ($ 10.98).

Moreover, buying — or even browsing — e-books on Amazon's platform hands the company information about your reading habits and preferences, data the company uses to tailor recommendations and future deals.

It becomes unlikely that a reader will then purchase a Nook and switch to buying e-books through Barnes & Noble, even if that company is slashing prices.