At the time, Raccah was excited about the near - future of
enhanced ebooks for middle grade and young adult readers, promising that big things were on the horizon for an age group that has been largely forgotten by so many of the enhanced ebook publishers.
Some of that technology is already well in place, such as tablet PC,
enhanced ebooks for textbooks, and dedicated e-readers.
One of the features of digital
enhanced ebooks for children that has made tablet - based reading so popular for both the children and the parents is the ability to contain all of the specified in content in one easy - to - access location.
iStoryTime, creators of award - winning, bestselling
enhanced ebooks for children, are offering a free giveaway of one of their most popular and beloved titles in honor of Autism Awareness Month.
A new study finds that
enhanced eBooks for children don't raise literacy levels.
A new collaboration between an award - winning publisher and an award - winning digital media platform has resulted in the launch of a new line of
enhanced ebooks for kids, including the highly innovative, patented «draw and record» feature that lets young users personalize their storybooks.
The company offers a simple PDF conversion tool to create
enhanced ebooks for the Apple iBookstore (output as iBooks for iPad format).
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What began as a paperback to accompany the paintings is now
an enhanced ebook for tablets, complete with commissioned poetry by some of the UK's leading contemporary poets.
After all, I dug the Penguin
enhanced eBook for On the Road that debuted last year.
Not exact matches
As the graphic below shows, the iPad is the overwhelming platform of choice
for ebooks of fixed layout, which is a fancy word
for those that don't include any multimedia or other «
enhanced» features:
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I hadn't considered it
for my non-fiction
ebooks though, but now I will, but only if I can see ways it would
enhance the reader experience in a way that was unforgettable.
Unlike its print counterpart, an
ebook doesn't need to be produced in even signatures and can be
enhanced by reintroducing sidebar material that was excised from the print book
for length reasons.
The true potential of the so - called «
enhanced eBook» is not just in the addition of separate media such as video or audio
for the sake of additional media.
By providing features to support a wide range of scenarios: give
eBooks away
for free as a marketing tool, automatically link
eBook and print editions to
enhance discovery and provide more options to readers, and offer optional copy - protection (DRM) to prevent piracy and unlicensed distribution.
Adobe has been running a fairly popular service
for the last few years that has been marketed towards independent authors, businesses and design studios to create
enhanced eBook apps
for iOS.
Watching Bohjalian on camera, I tried to picture an author like William Faulkner making a video
for an
enhanced ebook.
Fortunately
for Light Publications and their
ebook Cinderella Spinderella, what makes their book great isn't just the full - color illustrations, audio read - aloud, realistic page turn, or any of the other typical things we've come to expect from
enhanced ebooks.
To purchase an «
enhanced»
ebook edition, you must bypass the main page of the Kindle store and search
for a hard - to - spot link
for «Kindle Editions with Audio / Video.»
Renewed concerns about students who use tablets
for reading have surfaced as experts now fear the «bells and whistles» approach to
enhanced ebooks are actually stunting student comprehension.
The award - winning children's
enhanced ebook creators at zuuka's iStorytime have announced that their complete catalog of titles, many of which are adaptations of some of the most beloved current children's films, are finally available
for Android - powered smartphones and tablets.
Of course, including audio and even video in an
enhanced ebook is certainly possible nowadays, and part of the initial wowza applauds
for when
ebooks became more mainstream — except most of us as
ebook readers, don't go
for the rich media we were promised, even when available.
While selling
eBooks is a nice add - on
for their Author program, Brown says their focus remains on reviews, and that the new eReader
enhances that experience.
I long
for the day when local Book Design Awards include true digital books, not just
ebooks, or «
enhanced»
ebooks, or god forbid, fixed layout
ebooks, but books that start with flow and ebb, that use the liquidity that digital provides.
«There is clear demand
for enhancing library catalogs around the world with information about
ebooks,» says George Oates, the project lead
for Open Library.
The most interesting thing
for me is the idea of «
enhanced Ebooks», which opens a whole new world of creativity.
«As digital
eBooks and
enhanced eBooks become the primary and not the secondary source of income
for authors, we believe that authors and not publishers should receive the majority of revenues.»
«Our goal is to provide publishers, authors and literary agents a one stop solution
for maximizing the creation, distribution and sales of their
enhanced and text
eBooks.
OverDrive Australia will provide
enhanced service and valuable new channels
for the digital distributor's partners in the region, including those of Booki.sh, the Australian
ebook company acquired in March.
One thing that has contributed to the rise in popularity of
enhanced ebook reading, especially
for children, is the quick turnaround time to get a brand - new title to market while still incorporating the transmedia experience.
eBook Architects specializes in creating enhanced ebooks and fixed layout files for all of the major ebook chan
eBook Architects specializes in creating
enhanced ebooks and fixed layout files
for all of the major
ebook chan
ebook channels.
You will have 2 GB of internal storage
for all of your
ebooks, and you can
enhance it further via the Micro SD
for up to 32 GB of additional memory.
Interactive storybook websites,
enhanced ebooks with full - color graphics and video, book trailers that advertise novels just as movies are advertised, downloadable app books
for readers of all ages, all speak to the changing needs of today's reading consumers.
NBC Publishing intends on creating content specifically
for the Apple iPad because it has a heavy user base and an established track record with the success of
enhanced ebooks.
Whether over the original concerns from parents of expensive device damage and
enhanced ebooks being likened to video games, or the young adults» own feedback that reading was
for paper, devices were
for socialization, children's publishing even now is awfully slow to catch up.
In order
for Recorded Books to be a viable business proposition going forward they will have to establish more relations with publishers to
enhance their
eBook catalog.
«Perhaps we are already discovering that this new world is a touch more fertile»
for enhanced ebooks than we thought.
The next two are
eBook readers, that is, they were designed
for reading
eBooks, and are particularly useful
for those from Project Gutenberg; they both
enhance the
eBook reading experience, especially in comparison to a text editor or a file viewer.
Slice of life scenes can be perfect bonus material
for our website (or
enhanced ebook).
As the
eBook market expands we are seeing a surge in the demand
for «
Enhanced eBooks.»
However, more adult consumers are looking
for ways to revitalize texts in engaging ways, and
enhanced ebooks may provide that outlet.
The curation of
eBook collections is an integral part of our service and providing easy access to great content significantly
enhances the user experience
for our customers, here are some key points.»
While there was some data from the Center
for Teaching through Children's Books that seemed to show children actually learn less and retain less content and demonstrate a lower level of comprehension when reading an
enhanced ebook app (there's simply too much distracting content that takes away from the story line), Russell Hampton, president of Disney Publishing Worldwide, countered that argument with the explanation that e-readers are engaging reluctant and disinterested readers in higher numbers than ever before.
Do a search on Google
for enhanced ebooks and you will find that there's a divergence of opinion on them.
It seems with most
enhanced ebooks there is no definitive resource or toolkit
for authors to really use.