I happen to be a very
early ebook user and was a customer of Fictionwise, now bought by B&N, they have an ereader format with a.
Not exact matches
Hopefully, they'll also work on publishers to offer a short term rental option, giving them a further point of difference and, at the same time, turning what for many
early users is a negative — that you can't download the
ebooks you «own» — into a positive: that you don't need to own or download them because you've just rented them.
One of our customers allow their end
users to customer the ex libris in their own
eBooks, like the personal stamp from
earlier times.
As Project Gutenberg was launched from the University of Illinois, with the help of English - speaking volunteers, its first goal has been to provide
ebooks to the English - language community, that is to say 95 % of internet
users in the
early 1990s.
Earlier on in the week this policy hit the mainstream news as Sony's new Reader application was denied from being listed because
users paid Sony directly for Magazine and
eBook purchases.
The amount of general interest press that covered the Amazon announcement showed that
ebooks and ereaders have reached well beyond techies and young people and whatever
early adopter market people might have thought and spread well into general
users everywhere.
The company said
earlier this year it is closing down its
ebook business in North America, Europe and Australia and that
users would be transferred to Kobo, owned by Japanese online shopping giant Rakuten.
Earlier in the month Oyster launched a new service for
ebooks that is similar to Netflix where
users can get unlimited access to a catalog of content for a monthly fee.