Sentences with phrase «e-books than a tablet»

Based on my experience, here are the four main reasons why I think an e-reader is better for e-books than a tablet.

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A quarter - century down the line, analysts say, there's little reason to expect that the consumer will be more often flipping the pages of an e-book on their tablet computer than picking up a hardcover, and streaming video through their Web - enabled TV rather than turning on their Blu - ray player.

All in all, for people who prefer to read their e-books on «old - fashioned» e-ink devices rather than tablets, there's no doubt the Kindle Touch is the cream of the crop.

For example, a tablet may be a more effective tool to foster children's letter shaping... Alternatively, reading a paper - printed storybook may be better at fostering aspects of emergent literacy than reading an e-book on a tablet due to an app's distracting features.»

For those needs, an 8 - inch Android tablet may serve you better than an e-book reader.

Kobo has proclaimed that more people buy e-books on e-readers than smartphones and tablets.

The catch here is that multipurpose devices like tablets and smartphones are usually less suited for e-book reading than the dedicated e readers.

The Kindle Fire is, to its roots, an e-book reader, so if you are willing to buy a tablet for the reading purpose you should go with the Kindle as it also a good tablet with the features of a good e-book reader.But if you are going for screen resolution then i pad 2 is better option rather than kindle fire hd, As the market sort of pupose Kindle fire and i pad 2 both are useful in its own scenario.

Among Americans who read e-books, those under 30 are more likely to read them on a cell phone, at 41 percent, or on a computer (55 percent) than on an e-book reader (23 percent) or tablet (16 percent).

Unsurprisingly, the rise in tablet and e-reader ownership, Pew says, has had a direct impact on how many people are turning to e-books rather than printed books when it comes to reading.

The Xtreme 2 tablet comes with more than 60 child - friendly apps, which include games, e-books and videos.

Tablets with full app stores and e-book apps, Web browsers, and more - robust processors and graphics capabilities typically offer more versatility but have shorter battery life and less readable type than single - purpose e-book readers.

These twin screen e-book reader that also acts as a tablet PC device does offer more than the standard e-book readers do.

If you own an e-book reader or tablet, you are in a group of people who read more now than before doling - out the money for a modern tech device.

Coming to Arnova 8 and the less «conventional» of the two, the tablet seems to be aimed more at the e-book reading crowd than anything else.

Kno also defended the price by saying the tablets would start to pay for themselves within three semesters due to the simple fact that e-books costs much less than their corresponding printed versions.

Coming to the tablets themselves, both the Galapagos seems to be made more for e-book reading than anything else, which is in contrast to the iPad that it intends to rival and which is more of a general purpose mobile computing device.

College graduates are far more likely than those with high school diplomas or less to read books on tablets (25 % vs. 7 %), e-book readers (15 % vs. 3 %) or traditional computers (15 % vs. 6 %).

In the year ending in January 2012, the American Association of Publishers reported that e-book sales had risen more than 49.4 % in the adult books category, 475.1 % in the children's and young adult category, and 150.7 % in the religious publications category.5 We at the Pew Research Center's Internet & American Life Project reported that ownership of e-book readers among adults age 18 and older had nearly doubled from 10 % of the population to 19 % over the holiday gift - giving season at the end of 2011, and ownership of tablet computers had surged a similar amount.6 In the final week of 2011 the e-book version of 42 of the top - selling 50 books on USA Today's best - seller book list was outselling the paper version of the same book.7

Adults who own e-readers like Kindles or Nooks read e-books more frequently than those who only own other devices (like tablets or cell phones).

The share of e-book readers on tablets has more than tripled since 2011 and the number of readers on phones has more than doubled over that time, while the share reading on e-book reading devices has not changed.

This is primarily because more people buy e-books on e-readers than smartphones and tablets.

We can now offer more than 300,000 e-books via tablets and smartphones,» said Per Dalheimer, Managing Director of Libri.de.

Bilbary promotes and encourages reading by providing access to more than 340,000 e-books via e-readers, computers, tablets and smart phones for purchase or rental.

We can now offer more than 300,000 e-books via tablets and smartphones.»

And while a 7 - inch e-book reader has served Amazon well to date, using a 7 - inch screen on tablet is unreasonable for anything other than simple content consumption, at best.

And they believe this even though parents as a group actually tend to be more tech - savvy, own more tablet computers and read more e-books than non-parents do.

Eventually e-books will be expected to have multimedia dimensions, with video and interactive elements, he says, which calls for something more like Apple's tablet device than something that is largely dedicated to reading.

The tablet will also do more than just function as an e-book reader, since it will boast of front and rear facign cameras (the latter to perform video chats we presume), HDMI output and a microphone.

The problem with illustrations for e-books, Shatzkin posits, is that they're generally intended to be instructive — but tablets offer the ability to include video instructions rather than simple still images.

Meanwhile Simon Bryant, associate director of consumer electronics at Futuresource Consulting, agreed that his survey data also showed more UK households own a tablet than an e-reader now than they did a year ago, and more people are reading e-books on tablets.

Some in the e-book reading public have been disappointed by the shortage of the popular books in libraries, complaining that the e-reader and tablet industry is biased toward getting the public to buy an actual book rather than borrow it.

For the first time ever, Multnomah County Library has added a substantial number of e-book copies — more than 1,000 in all — for those who choose tablets or e-readers as their preferred format.

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In an attempt to spur mainstream adoption of its e-reader, the Kindle, (and to fend off the growing number of competitors in the e-reader, digital book, and tablet market) Amazon reduced the e-reader price by more than half and established a policy of capping off e-book prices at $ 9.99, which publishers criticized, arguing that the low prices of e-books would cannibalize sales of higher priced hardcover books.

If tablet users buy fewer e-books than e-reader users, does it really affect the total number of e-books sold?

What that means is that any old - and - busted e-book reader you give this year will seem horribly old and hideously busted when the new smartbook - style tablets (tablets that run cell phone, rather than desktop, operating systems) hit.

Stolper said that readers who use a dedicated e-book reader buy more books than those who use tablets.

The rise of tablet popularity has been fueled largely by Amazon's Kindle Fire, which increased over the past year from no use to be the first choice for more than 17 percent of e-book consumers.

My e-book library now numbers in the hundreds: lots of public domain, e-book versions (on sale) of real books I already own (because it is a lot easier to travel with a tablet than a library), and new purchases.

E-book reader ownership levels among seniors are slightly lower than the national average (24 % of all U.S. adults are e-book reader owners), while tablet ownership levels among seniors are around half the national average (34 % of all U.S. adults are tablet owE-book reader ownership levels among seniors are slightly lower than the national average (24 % of all U.S. adults are e-book reader owners), while tablet ownership levels among seniors are around half the national average (34 % of all U.S. adults are tablet owe-book reader owners), while tablet ownership levels among seniors are around half the national average (34 % of all U.S. adults are tablet owners).

Other major findings Pew found were that four times as many people now read e-books than two years ago, e-book reading happens on several types of devices, including Kindles, Nooks, smartphones, and tablets, and that Amazon's Kindle Fire grew in tablet market share from 5 percent in mid-December to 14 percent in mid-January.

Seniors who have graduated from college are around three times as likely to own both an e-book reader and a tablet as are seniors who have not attended college, and those with an annual household income of $ 75,000 or more per year are around four times as likely to own each device as are those with a household income of less than $ 30,000 per year.

They are tech savvy and more comfortable with a tablet or e-book reader than with a printed book.

Additionally, tablet users and e-reader device users were more likely than non-users in general to say that they mostly prefer to purchase their own copies of both print and e-books.

Among those who own tablet computers and e-book readers, women read more books than men (23 books on average in the past year vs. 19); whites read more books than minorities (23 books on average in the past year vs. 16); those who have owned the device more than a year read more books than newer purchasers (24 books on average in the past year vs. 20); and those over age 40 have read more books than those under 40 (22 books on average in the past year vs. 19).

Women who do not currently borrow e-books from libraries are more interested than men in taking classes on how to use handheld reading devices such as e-readers or tablets.

Example: Would an Apple tablet with a gorgeous, high - resolution color display and a (likely) limited battery life be a better e-book reader than a Kindle, which can last for days between charges?

This is a consistent judgment throughout different demographic and tech - owning groups, although tablet owners (14 %) are more likely than those who do not own tablets (7 %) to say they prefer e-books for this situation.

Around one in ten Americans with annual household incomes of $ 75,000 or more own a tablet PC or e-book reader, while fewer than 5 % of households earning less than $ 50,000 per year contain one of these devices.