Sentences with phrase «e-books in a standard format»

«So long as DRM stays part of the plot, every Kindle reader sold, every Kindle app installed and every Kindle title purchased will strengthen Amazon's hand... if you could buy an e-book in a standard format that, like an MP3 music file, would be playable on current and imaginable future hardware, it wouldn't matter which store sold it.

I call on authors and publishers to use their influence to ensure the simple availability of their e-books in a standard format across all platforms.

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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.

Predatory pricing could, in turn, help Amazon buttress its other critical barrier to entry into the e-book marketplace: its use of a proprietary e-book format, rather than the industry - standard epub format.

Sony, in a challenge to Amazon's Kindle, unveiled plans on Thursday to do away with the proprietary software on its electronic Sony Reader and convert its e-book store to an industry standard format.

Adopted by the International Digital Publishing Forum (IDPF) as an open - standards - based format for digital books, ePub allows publishers to create books in a single format for distribution to various e-book resellers and for use on any device that supports ePub.

The Hachette Book Group plans to launch an EPub3 program and will begin by releasing 16 titles in the format, an interactivity and multimedia - focused standard for enhanced e-books, between November 2012 and March 2013.

Unlike the Kindle, the e-readers in the Sony Reader line are compatible with a variety of e-book formats, including ePub (which is as close to a standard as is possible in today's e-reader market), Microsoft Word and PDF.

Dave Bricker presents Thoughts on the E-Book Users Bill of Rights posted at The One Hour Guide to Self Publishing by Dave Bricker, saying,» The idea that all people should have access to content in standard, functional formats is fundamentally good.

Both Smashwords and Author Solutions will make e-books available in the increasingly popular ePub format, which Sony recently adopted as its standard.

Sony announced the latest in its series of attempts to shake Amazon's dominance of the e-book market today, saying it will scrap its proprietary e-book format in favor of the ePub standard.

Sony recently announced that it was switching the content in its eBook Store from a proprietary format to the ePub standard - a move to counter Amazon's «lock - in» of e-book content sold through its store, which only works on its Kindle devices (or Kindle software on the iPhone and iPod touch).

Prior to 2011, e-book borrowers were able to check out several formats of e-books from their local libraries — including ePub, the free, «universal» e-book standard set by the International Digital Publishing Forum (IDPF) since 2007, used by Kobo, Barnes & Noble, Sony, and Google Books.50 However, e-book borrowers could not check out books on Amazon's Kindle, the predominant e-reader at the time.51 In 2011, however, Amazon partnered with OverDrive, and in September 2011 library patrons who own Kindles were able to borrow Kindle books from public and school libraries in the United States.In 2011, however, Amazon partnered with OverDrive, and in September 2011 library patrons who own Kindles were able to borrow Kindle books from public and school libraries in the United States.in September 2011 library patrons who own Kindles were able to borrow Kindle books from public and school libraries in the United States.in the United States.52

Sony recently announced that it was switching the content in its eBook Store from a proprietary format to the ePub standard — a move to counter Amazon's «lock - in» of e-book content sold through its store, which only works on its Kindle devices (or Kindle software on the iPhone and iPod touch).

Unlike some other e-book formats, standard PDF files do not allow the text in the book to be resized or to change fonts or to spill onto different pages than originally intended.

so now we're making a version of the «standard» e-book file - format for ibooks, and one for kobo, and one for the nook, and one for sony reader, and how in the world can this be a «standard»?