Sentences with phrase «electronic books only»

A new report has surfaced that electronic books only account for 1 % of the entire publishing sector.

In the Netherlands electronic books only account for 4.5 % of the total revenue publishers rake in.

Not exact matches

With Inkling, you have to publish an electronic book or document only once, and it creates versions for Kindles, desktop computers, tablets, mobile devices, whatever.

Apple's electronic book effort, iBooks, excludes everything from Random House, the biggest publisher in the world, works only on Apple platforms and helped usher in a massive ebook price increase last year.

that Hugh»... achieved a feat few traditional authors have... inked a print - only contract with major publishers and retained the electronic rights to his own books (meaning all of his Amazon ebook sales are still his own).»

Mr. Howey inked a print - only contract with major publishers and retained the electronic rights to his own books (meaning all of his Amazon ebook sales are still his own).

Electronic only consists of about 20 % of all book sales.

The all - new Kindle has an electronic - ink screen with 50 percent better contrast than any other e-reader, a new sleek design with a 21 percent smaller body while still keeping the same 6 - inch - size reading area, 15 percent lighter weight at just 8.5 ounces, 20 percent faster page turns, up to one month of battery life with wireless off, double the storage to 3,500 books, no glare even in bright sunlight and built - in Wi - Fi - all for only $ 139.

Any electronic book that boasts beautiful design, does so only ethereally.

Electronic only consists of about 20 % of all trade book sales.

The Barnes Noble Nook (styled «nook») is a brand of electronic - book readers developed by American book retailer Barnes Noble, The nook ebook format is specific to the nook, can only be read by the nook, it is new EPUB format file with eReader DRM combination created for the nook, that is different with EPUB with Adobe ADEPT DRM

If you screwed up and allowed the publisher to keep the electronic rights or POD rights, even selling only a few copies a year, you won't see any money ever again on this book besides dinner money every year.

Funny, Derek, as I am sitting here holding my paperback copy of Vandalism Of Words, on the first page you say «this book is only available in electronic formats...» ~ Anne

Design at these electronic books quite traditional, is reported only about the raised crash - worthiness of the screen.

These days most electronic book readers use their own propriety eBook format, if they do support other formats it's usually only a handful.

At one models of electronic books on a bookshelf it is possible to open only for reading, or to delete the book.

Features necessary for the success of digital publishing may be missing in W3C documents, or may be in draft only; as a result, for example, EPUB 3, the standard for electronic books, introduced extensions to support publishing - specific requirements.

She mentioned it holds close to 10,000 books and he exclaims «its lighter then a which is a sure sign that electronic book readers are no longer a mysterious gadget only available online, but now is available at retail stores across the world.

Most people who are fiendish readers might have only read real books their entire life and the notion of reading them on an electronic device is just not comfortable.

If their arguments are only that electronic devices «distract passengers from listening to safety announcements» and that they can «become dangerous projectiles», you might as well ban any good old paper book — which they have never banned during takeoff or landing.

Both Boarders and Barnes and Noble are in dire straights because of their overbloated retail chain, Barnes and Noble was seriously thinking of folding mid way last year, its only saving grace has been the popularity of their Nook E-Reader and selling electronic Books.

Still other companies like Oceanhouse Media have built their success on reviving favorite titles such as those by Dr. Seuss in electronic, bells - and - whistles formats; last year, Oceanhouse even released never - before - in - print titles from Dr. Seuss, a series of seven books that had only ever appeared in serial form in Redbook magazine.

Before this standardized electronic format, many libraries only offered PDF books and did not have a digital infrastructure setup to loan them out online.

So, if your library only has one electronic copy of the new John Sandford book, only one person can check out the book at a time.

As I said earlier, not only can all the fans of the Fey books get them this fall and winter in both electronic and trade paper editions, but it is now worthwhile for Kris, after over a decade, to finally write the next three Fey novels, the Places of Power series.

Wi - Fi module in the electronic book is used for connecting to the Internet, to read news and to download books, it is natural only in those places where there is a zone of reception of network Wi - Fi.

Keep in mind that electronic book adoption and sales abroad are easily 3 years behind what is going on in the U.S. Foreign publishers must be convinced to license rights to a digital - only title.

I'm sure we'll also see publishers experimenting with more electronic only titles in an effort to get some titles out more quickly, expand the kinds of books they can acquire, and to give their biggest authors an alternative to self - publishing.

2... Price your electronic books so that they look like traditional publishers, only slightly cheaper.

We launched our first ebook only a few months ago and we are still promoting it and encouraging our readers to access the book in the new electronic formats.

Margaret Atwood doesn't want to disappoint her legions of fans, so she's transformed book signings (which would only please handfuls of her fans) into electronic exchanges (which, she presumably thinks, would please the rest of us).

Well, I am only published in a chapter of a book, but it was much more exciting than being published in an electronic format to me.

I no longer have an electronic file of my manuscript; I only have a hard copy of the finished book.

To persuade one of the Publisher Defendants to stay with the others and sign an agreement, Apple CEO Steve Jobs wrote to an executive of the Publisher Defendant's corporate parent that the publisher had only two choices apart from signing the Apple Agency Agreement: (i) Accept the status quo («Keep going with Amazon at $ 9.99»); or (ii) continue with a losing policy of delaying the release of electronic versions of new titles («Hold back your books from Amazon»).

Internal memory of the electronic book can be formatted only through the menu of the book.

GoodEReader has posted several very informative articles that seek to educate authors of every ilk, whether they are traditionally published through a major publishing house with a four - book deal, self - published through an independent press, or have recently converted a manuscript to electronic format and uploaded it to an online site guided only by their own ability.

Many other major electronic book stores only bother with the North American and UK market and it is refreshing to see a company put a heavily emphasis on the wider exposure of literacy and new works of prose.

There are some really good books written by indie authors and their titles are only available on electronic form.

«More and more authors and publishers are creating electronic - only books and not putting them in physical format,» Abramson said.

One can only conclude that electronic books are the future, and it's just a matter of time before printed books disappear, relics of a previous millennium.

About one in five most often read electronic books, while only 6 % mostly experienced books in audio form.

You wouldn't want to be locked into only buying from one book store for paper books why set yourself up to do it with electronic books.

Not only is there a cost to the publisher to convert and produce electronic versions of the work, but there are also sunk costs in producing a book in any form, many of them editorial.

As I described in a recent post, Eisler said that what made the decision to go with Amazon easy was that the web giant promised to not only get his books to market faster — both in print and electronic form — but also offered to sell them at a lower price than the traditional publisher, and apparently (although the terms of his deal weren't released) gave him a bigger share in the proceeds to boot.

In electronic publishing, book sales grow slowly, often starting out with only a couple sales per month, then maybe only one the next month, then five the following, then seven, then five, then ten, and so on and so on.

A biography of the late Apple co-founder Steve Jobs was Amazon's best - selling book this year despite hitting store shelves and electronic readers only in late October, Amazon said Monday.

The Seattle, Washington - based Amazon, maker of the Kindle electronic book reader, is capable of «disrupting not only Apple's product strategy but other tablet manufacturers» as well,» she contended in a recent blog post.

Secondly, I get very, very puzzled (considering the new and very easy technology of POD publishing) that any publisher would only go electronic, especially with the well - researched data of number of paper books sold vs electronic books sold.

In the belief that a book is not only a readable text but also an object of art, the press is dedicated to producing beautifully designed, well - manufactured books on acid - free paper, as well as electronic texts of comparable quality.

Almost all copies are sold in the first four months and by the end of one year the book can only be found through special orders and in electronic edition that is forgotten by all but the author.