Sentences with phrase «favored by book publishers»

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Adobe announced that more than 100 publishers, book retailers and libraries are using Adobe's Content Server 4 software to deliver encryptable e-books via the two formats favored by Adobe: PDF and ePub.

Price competition won't go away, and with a by - now huge and - still - growing market of indie books that practice price competition - and - which are (no matter hows publishers and pundits try to deny it) increasingly indistinguishable from traditionally published books in terms of packaging and writing / editing quality, publishers need to come up with an argument in favor of higher pricing that - readers - find convincing, or else lower prices.

Books published by Amazon's imprints tend to more closely resemble those favored by self - publishers (typically between $ 1.99 - $ 4.99) than those preferred by publishing houses (typically between $ 9.99 - $ 14.99).

She also notes that traditional publishers price e-books so high that regular and long - time readers often pass them by in favor or buying indie books with much lower price tags.

«Amazon is doing the world a favor by crushing book publishers» http://www.vox.com/2014/10/22/7016827/amazon-hachette-monopoly

The underlying problems here are that the shortsightedness of book publishers in the nineties gave rise to Amazon, a deeply anticompetitive company, and that the shortsightedness of book publishers in the last ten years has... given further rise to Amazon, still a deeply anticompetitive company, by letting them set the retail sales terms for ebooks so much in their own favor that any move away from their comically self - serving model is viewed as a brilliant new future.