«There is little doubt that the future is e-publishing,» says Ravi, who predicts that even though
the e-book reading community in India is barely at 0.05 % now, it will become an active market within the next three years.
Not exact matches
Even putting the loss of physical sales aside, the customers and
community members we've talked to who have bought
e-book readers or who buy
e-books have been largely guided in what to
read by their online sources; they've restricted or pared down their
reading lists to accommodate what they can get online; and they've stopped giving books (in physical or electronic form) as gifts to their friends and their children.
The
community aspect of
reading is one of the big reasons why this company has such a large competitive advantage over Amazon, who merely sells
e-books.
This report is part of the first phase of that Gates Foundation - funded research: an analysis of the way people
read in the digital era — especially the way they
read books.8 Subsequent reports will cover how librarians and patrons perceive the situation with
e-books and other digital content, and how people in different kinds of
communities (urban, suburban, and rural) compare in their
reading habits.
It is relatively easy to envision an improved
e-book reading device that meets the needs of the entire university
community.
In a press release, he added, «The European
reading community is hungry for
e-books, and with our rollout in Germany we're realizing our vision of delivering local content and immersive
reading experiences to more readers, on more platforms, in more countries around the world.»
The Worldreader app is an
e-book reading application that allows millions of people in underserved
communities to have access to our digital library of +40,000 titles on a device they already own: their mobile phone.