Sentences with phrase «ebook technologies at»

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Ed Summers, senior manager of accessibility and applied assisted technology at SAS, is spearheading the eBook's development, leading a team of programmers, artists, and curriculum specialists.

With so much at stake, this eBook looks at why Induction exists, why it's broken, and how technology can support the organization.

The free eBook Anatomy Of A Trend — Going Beyond Trendiness explores how the world works is evolving at an exponential rate: New technologies are making more things possible, shifting the way people work, and Millennials have become a major factor in the workforce, bringing with them a higher demand for engagement.

In this ebook, Lisa Andrejko, Ed.D., strategic education advisor at TalentEd and former teacher, principal, director of technology, and superintendent, lays out a five - point structure for performance management processes that align systems while sustaining district priorities and improving teacher effectiveness.

David lives at the intersection of technology and publishing by helping companies, associations and publishers navigate and profit from the eBook revolution and content marketing.

But that ebook won't be readable in any device that doesn't directly support Microsoft Reader, limiting the purchaser's options for reading it and, almost certainly, making it unreadable at some point in the future when the technology has long been superseded.

The second major trend at the event was addressing ebook discovery and what libraries and technology companies are doing about it.

Rene d'Entremont, the Director of Public Relations at Kobo stated to Good e-Reader that «Rakuten Kobo has entered into an agreement with Deutsche Telekom for the purchase of assets related to eBook technology, and will share details as they become available.»

This week, the publishing industry came together at Digital Book World 2014 — described as a reflection of the current state of the publishing industry and the changes it has experienced — to tackle discussions such as «change management, technology and start - ups, data - driven decision making, cutting - edge tools for ebook production, and much more.»

There was a time when «futurists» said that the book (text based, print or ebook) will die out — another technology driven prediction that hit the dust, at least in our, and the next, generation.

The dominant meme over the past several years has been the death of publishing, usually at the hands of the ebook, and the looming threat of technology partners / competitors that, as Grandinetti alluded to, presents «both risk and opportunity.»

«After using the Briggs / Cochran Calculus ebook that uses beta CDF technology, many faculty members have told us, «This is how calculus should be taught,»» said Bill Hoffmann, Executive Editor at Pearson.

At the same time, officials in Italy could not only track how much time an inmate spends interacting with an ebook using the same technology that parents and educators use for young readers, but they can also verify the user's annotations, highlights, or comments before assigning credit for having read the book.

«The combination of Blio's amazing color - filled, 3D eBooks with our lifelike speech technology offers the market a compelling eReader experience at a time where differentiation and customization are critical.»

The Company creates quality books and ebooks, print and technology - based learning programs, classroom magazines and other products that, in combination, offer schools customized solutions to support children's learning both at school and at home.

«When it comes to eBooks, people talk about the technology a lot but they don't spend much time looking at business models.

«Firebrand is the perfect fit for the technology developed at Enthrill, this deal offers a terrific opportunity to expand on the bulk ebook business we created,» says Kevin Franco, CEO of Enthrill.

The new ebook, The Best Writing From the Atlantic's Technology Channel, is available on the Atlantic website for free until the end of the year, at which time it will go on sale at major ebook retailers for $ 1.99.

At the time The Director of Digital Publishing Director of Press and Publication Administration Technology Wang Qiang, said that «Amazon opened its Kindle ebook store operation with their license pending, but has not yet approved.»

The company really refined all of their technology and this lineup of devices was at the height of the e-reader and eBook boom period.

Denver, CO, June 1, 2017 — ODILO, the Spanish startup tech and eBook company, will provide all children in Peru with free technology due to the horrible floods that wreaked havoc there at the end of March 2017.

She previously worked at Gutenberg Technology, where she took care of educational ebooks; and in Gobelins, where she focused on the latest design innovation about ebooks.

Part of Thompson's success has come from an eagerness to embrace new technology that becomes available to indie authors, such as a live virtual ebook signing that she will be participating in on Tuesday, February 28th, at 3pm / 6 pm EST..

After a lot of speculating and looking at other titles in retailers» digital catalog, it was surmised that the authors with the technical know - how to create and publish their own enhanced ebooks were probably people who had a strong interest in computers and technology; therefore, that level of interest spilled over into their creative work.

One of the greatest adoptions in the early days of digital publishing came quietly from publishers who were reluctant at first to put their new releases into ebook form, but were more than willing to use the «experimental» reading technology for their out - of - print and backlist titles.

If you are frustrated with your lack of success finding a publisher... if you've looked into companies that will publish your book for you and been appalled at what they charge... if you wish you better understood what the new printing and ebook technologies meant in terms of your options... then this little book can help.

Ebooks are following an absolutely classic Technology Adoption Life Cycle and have clearly at this point crossed the chasm and may even be penetrating the conservatives (late majority).

There's an article over at Digitimes about E Ink, the company behind the display technology used in most ebook readers today, sampling out two new color touchscreen electrophoretic displays to their vendors.

The Kobo Aura ($ 149.99 direct) ebook reader brings some interesting new technology to the table, along with some of what made the more expensive Aura HD a winner — except now at a smaller size and a lower price point.

Start there and begin to look at this picture in terms of dollars as well as taking that leap into the new technologies we now possess and / or are creating for ebooks and this challenge proves most exciting.

It is nearly impossible to look past the ebook as the defining innovation of our business at the moment to guess what else technology may throw our way, because it has changed so many things.

There's a lot more — replacing paper, the rise of eWriters, the state of eInk and eReader technology, the effect on reading, spread of eReaders in education, the prices we settle at, the revenue stream eBooks and eReaders provide.

The sooner libraries adapt to the flexible infrastructure of eBook technology, the more capable they can court new readers who enjoy celebrating guilty pleasure at their disposal into using their additional services.

-LSB-...] Matthews explains why all ebook authors should embrace new technologies, while at the 2014 London Book Fair, traditional publishers are urged to look beyond the -LSB-...]

As the Chief Technology Officer at Datalogics, I am responsible for software development across the entire Datalogics eBook ecosystem.

Book 1: Tools & Technology (ebook edition, ASIN: B009U0ACSG) is available online at Amazon (http://www.amazon.com/dp/B009U0ACSG) and other online booksellers.

At EditionGuard, we are always on the lookout for new and exciting technologies, like braille for eBooks, that indie authors, publishers, and our readers will benefit from.

Best part is Audiobook Jungle readers get a 20 % discount using the promo code Categorysalecp at checkout for all ebooks in the following categories: Food and Wine, Foreign Language Study, History, Self - Help, Technology.

If I buy the printed book new at full price, I have the option of trading it when I am through for another book... If I choose to buy the same book in an eBook format — that's it... I have the book forever if I want it (well if the technology doesn't change and leave me unable to read it anymore).

In fact, they have the distinction of being the first publisher to release an ebook featuring the SmartLayers technology we've developed here at Olive Software.

China Miéville called the decision «a game changer» and long - time anti-DRM author and blogger Cory Doctorow praised the decision on both the Guardian Technology Blog andboing boing, the blog he co-edits: «I think that this might be the watershed for ebook DRM, the turning point that marks the moment at which all ebooks end up DRM - free.

October 19, 2016 Datalogics previews new eBook technologies, BookviaTM and READynamicTM Plus at Frankfurt Book Fair... read more

Because ebook technology is still in its early stages, the platforms and feature sets of each offering change rapidly, so any comparison is bound to be a snapshot at best.

At the time, the Kindle was just two years old, and ebook technology was in its awkward adolescence.

eBook Up - to - date with the latest technology trends, Certa Publishing offers multiple reader formats at major outlets including Amazon and Applie iBookstore.

My perception is that the Fire Phone — for all of its bells, whistles, and «let's have a look at Amazon» technology for some comparison shopping — will not save the author from the blood, sweat, and tears of marketing their book — ebook and / or hardcopy.

In my role at Macmillan Publishers, I've spent the last couple of years balancing traditional publishing technology (e.g., InDesign, XML, XSLT) with modern web markup and conversion methods to build the first version of an automated ebook production toolchain that converts Microsoft Word manuscripts to EPUB files ready for distribution.

The OverDrive integration will allow for the checkout of ebooks from within Millennium or Sierra without jumping to the OverDrive interface; the June rollout of Decision Center, the company's new data - driven collection management tool that will compete with collectionHQ's product; a wave of hiring backed by the new investors, which has already increased the staff by 20 so far this year and will add another 40 by the end of the year (mostly in development and support), according to Massana, pushing the company past 400 employees; the creation of five «library relations managers» who serve as customer advocates at III; the complete integration of SkyRiver Technology Solutions into III along with the termination of SkyRiver's suit against OCLC on March 4.

In this month's episode, Joanne McNeish, a professor who studies the resilience of incumbent technologies at the Ted Rogers School of Management at Ryerson University, discusses why readers prefer print books, the challenges ebooks will have to overcome to be more competitive, and why we shouldn't expect physical books to ever be replaced entirely.

«Baen, a publishing house that specializes in fantasy and sci - fi, mostly with a militaristic bent, says that they've found that e-books significantly increase profits,» responded one commenter at a technology web site, even though that publisher sells DRM - free versions of their ebooks «for substantially less than they sell dead - tree versions.»