And finally, there is no way to sell two versions of a title to specific
ebook device owners.
Not exact matches
Scribd has lined up a treat for
owners of the Kindle Fire range of tablet
devices; the company's online
ebook subscription service which has now been extended to include to the Kindle Fire tablets.
Further,
owners don't get to own the
ebooks they have borrowed from Oyster, for the moment the monthly subscription is discontinued, all of the
ebooks will vanish from your
device.
37 % of smartphone
owners read
eBooks on their
device.
Gifting of
eBooks is becoming more popular giving new
owners something to do with their
devices on Christmas day.
Firstly there was the «wiped» Kindle episode involving a Norwegian Kindle
owner, who had all her purchased Kindle
ebooks mysteriously deleted from her
device by Amazon, and then just as mysteriously, after the news went viral, they were reloaded.
Firstly there was the «wiped» Kindle episode involving a Norwegian Kindle
owner, who had all her purchased Kindle
ebooks mysteriously deleted from her
device by Amazon, and then just as mysteriously, after the news went viral, -LSB-...]
Kobo has aggressively formulated business relationships with OEMs, retailers and content
owners around the world, creating an overall
eBook solution that provides consumers the freedom to read on any
device.
The 6.3 Kindle Fire software version, released Thursday, lets
device owners share favorite passages and notes from their
ebook...
Owners of Kobo ereaders hoped that Kobo would added OverDrive support directly to Kobo
devices like Sony did with the PRS - T1 to make it easy to browse and download library
ebooks directly.
It's curious that Rakuten continues to make it harder for Kobo
device owners to get library
ebooks than Kindle
owners.
The DRM rules of the Reader allowed any purchased e-book to be read on up to six
devices, at least one of which must be a personal computer running Windows or Mac OS X. Although the
owner could not share purchased
eBooks on others»
devices and accounts, the ability to register five Readers to a single account and share books accordingly was a possible workaround.
The Reader Store is Sony's
ebook retail store, and sells ePub books to customers with any ePub
device, not just Sony Reader
owners.
If they'd drop their damn mutant DRM, I think sales would soar — and so would their
eBook sales to
owners of other eInk
devices that use «standard» Adobe DRM.
But until I see evidence that publishers and authors are experiencing significant sales of their
ebooks to Sony
device owners, those hardware unit sales numbers won't have traction for me.
But the wait was worth it, as Calibre 2.57 introduces some exciting new features, such as a new driver for the BQ Cervantes 3
ebook reader, allowing
owners of this
device to connect it to the Calibre
ebook library manager and upload books to it.
What this meant was that Kindle
owners bought
ebooks in numbers much greater than the relatively small number of
devices placed would have suggested.
Whatever they stand to lose in hardware sales could easily be made up in
ebook sales to all those Kindle
owners who want the peace of mind that they'll be able to read their library on any
device in the future.
And today, instead of supporting ancient
devices (ancient here means 5 years old), we should build
ebooks for modern
devices and leave it to
owners of the ancient
devices to catch up.
Actually, the price cuts for the Kindle content are continued until Christmas and beyond, and many new
owners of Kindle e-readers and Amazon Fire tablets are hunting for the best Kindle
ebooks to fed their new
devices — and the price is an important factor in making a purchase decision.
56 % of tablet
owners use social networking services on their
device, while 51 % consume music and / or videos, and 46 % read
ebooks.
While
owners of Amazon's kind of lame Kindle Fire have been able to flip their
devices for years they've also had battery - hogging, full color tablets designed to do a lot more than just read
ebooks really well.
Owners of the
device can use Raktuken Kobo's OverDrive service, which provides on - demand access to thousands of free
ebooks from participating libraries worldwide.
A survey of more than 1,400 tablet
owners in the US by Google's AdMob subsidiary has found that gaming is the most popular use for these
devices, considerably ahead of music, video and
ebooks.
Bookstores also need to redecorate their
eBook storefront to be more accessible and intuitive to make sure the smart
device owners can obtain
eBooks at their disposal.
Content
owners» intellectual property will be well - protected with Barnes & Noble's best - in - class digital rights management technology and offered in the industry standard ePub format that allows publishers» works to be enjoyed by millions of Barnes & Noble customers on hundreds of the most popular computing, mobile and
eBook reading
devices.
The Kindle Lending Library effort will be powered by OverDrive, a digital - content provider that currently provides
ebook services to those aforementioned 11,000 libraries, and which provides
ebook library - lending services to
owners of the Sony Reader, a petite
device far less successful than Amazon's Kindle.
However,
eBooks tend to be limited to one
owner (or
device) while online books are accessible by multiple users.