Sentences with phrase «for ebook adoption»

While self - published titles may be an option for public libraries when it comes to acquiring ebooks, not so for schools, according to SLJ columnist Christopher Harris, who lays out the ongoing challenges for ebook adoption in K - 12.

This may be a decisive move against big e-retailers like Amazon, but it could also add hurdles for ebook adoption, particularly if prices for digital editions are higher than consumers are willing to pay.

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Optimism about ebook adoption in schools has run high for the last few years, but this study provides some interesting news.

Hachette argued that the landscape for e-book sales had changed positively since the adoption of the agency model in 2010, writing, «Two years ago, Amazon effectively had a monopoly on the sale of eBooks and eReaders, and was selling products below cost in an effort to exclude competitors.

«There is an incredible appetite for eReaders and eBooks in Hong Kong, but until today, a limited selection of over-priced eReaders has curbed adoption,» said Chris Li of Swindon Book Co., Ltd. «By making the Kobo Wireless eReading easily available to customers at Swindon's retail and online outlets, we are solving this problem and meeting customer demand.»

But with great ideas proposed like a ranking system for self - published authors to help ensure best practices and a streamlined device system that makes buying ebooks ridiculously easy, one of the better ideas was the focus on greater adoption of bundling of ebooks with their print counterparts, proposed by BitLit's Peter Hudson.

One of the early adoption markets for tablet use, K12 digital textbooks, and a thriving e-commerce site to offer ebooks was India, but recent reports have shown somewhat stagnant responses, which experts have attributed to a lack of reliable wifi and internet connectivity throughout the country, as well as concerns about posting credit card information on unreliable digital infrastructure.

The latter focus, Booktrack for education, stands to become one of the more exciting innovations in classroom application for digital reading since the adoption of ebooks in K12 classroom.

eBook adoption in school libraries stands to result in a significant savings for both public and private centers» budgets, given the typically lower cost of titles and the elimination of damaged copies.

For ebook reading consumers, we came across brand - new or limited edition devices from four different companies today, including Bookeen, Imcosys, Tolio, and txtr; txrt actually spoke at length about pending plans for a subscription - based reading service, highlighting several features that their platform will offer that the slow - to - adoption subscription reading market has lackFor ebook reading consumers, we came across brand - new or limited edition devices from four different companies today, including Bookeen, Imcosys, Tolio, and txtr; txrt actually spoke at length about pending plans for a subscription - based reading service, highlighting several features that their platform will offer that the slow - to - adoption subscription reading market has lackfor a subscription - based reading service, highlighting several features that their platform will offer that the slow - to - adoption subscription reading market has lacked.

Brian from Bookbaby simply said «When production becomes more cost - effective and adoption more widespread, as well as increased expectations for more functionality in ebooks, new formats and all of their associated functionality will be increasingly adopted.

«The adoption of eBooks by an institution founded before Gutenberg represents a significant coming of age for publishing,» said Dev Ganesan, President and CEO of Aptara.

Some interesting details from McCoy's interview include the explanation of Amazon's adoption of the ePub file format — as opposed to its standard MOBI format — for Japanese ebooks in light of the Amazon.jp store launch, as well as Kobo «s ePub - only ebook store formed by parent company Rakuten.

This mentality is in keeping with what the publishing industry has learned about teens and digital reading, namely that many prefer to keep their devices separate from their education, leading to what was once a slow adoption of ebooks for teen readers.

Due to constraints on textbook adoption, concerns about device compatibility, and questions as to where the funding for mobile devices will come from, public schools have been slower on the ebook uptake than colleges.

India was a surprising front runner in global ebook adoption, with both the launch of a number of low - cost tablets designed for school children to consume digital textbooks, and an internet broadband infrastructure designed to make digital consumption possible throughout the country's schools.

This news is assuming that some of the more outlying areas have reliable internet access with the speeds necessary to download lengthy ebooks, a fact that some countries with more populated cities may take for granted when rationalizing the adoption of digital textbooks.

For three decades, OverDrive has worked exclusively with digital content, a true pioneer in the evolution and adoption of eBooks and audiobooks.

More than 30 formats vie for adoption by device and eBook software developers, authors, publishers and, most importantly, readers.

One of the greatest adoptions in the early days of digital publishing came quietly from publishers who were reluctant at first to put their new releases into ebook form, but were more than willing to use the «experimental» reading technology for their out - of - print and backlist titles.

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Amazon has just announced move that could constitute a true Killer feature for stimulating massive adoption by college students of ebooks — and Kindle ebooks in particular.

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... publishers believed that Amazon's wildly popular Kindle eReader device and the company's discounted pricing for ebooks would increase the adoption of ebooks, and feared Amazon's discounted pricing structure would permanently set consumer expectations for lower prices, even for other eReader devices.

Germany will soon finalize fixed prices for ebooks, but questions remain about how this will affect sales models and ebook adoption.

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Frustrated by what they say is an unacceptable response by Amazon and galvanized by the retail giant's push for Kindle ebooks adoption by schools, NFB officials will protest outside Amazon's Seattle headquarters on December 12 at 11:00 am.

The shift to agency pricing (in some cases, publishers have priced their ebooks higher than the price Amazon charges for the print versions); the rise in sales of indie - authored, low - priced ebooks; device fatigue and a slow renewals cycle; a lack of good competition to Amazon; adoption rates decreasing; reading time diminishing; and output reaching saturation point.

A lack of funds for ebooks was listed second, by 53 percent of respondents, while 37 percent said that they were waiting to see what the best platform would be for adoption.

By most media accounts, ebook adoption has plateaued at about a third of the overall book market, and this stall has lasted for over a year now.

Indeed, most of the studies that highlight our love for print over digital are several years old (or more) at this point, a period in which large - format, high - resolution smartphone adoption (much better for reading) and new all - you - can - read ebook services, such as Oyster, Scribd, and Kindle Unlimited, have emerged.

By other accounts, which try to shine light on ebook adoption by looking at markets like Amazon (which accounts for a scary two - thirds of ebook sales), show that a huge and growing percentage of ebooks are being sold by indie publishers or authors themselves rather than the bigs, and a third of them don't even have ISBNs, the universal ID used to track most books.

Eli Neiburger, deputy director of AADL, warns against dedicating disproportionate resources to ebooks when the adoption curve for them has flattened so quickly: The restrictive licenses offered elsewhere further limit their usefulness to all patrons in a given library system.

What we see from the graphs above is that all the reporting lately on the plateauing or decline in ebook adoption is certainly true for major publishers, whose numbers are being used as if they represent the broader market, but their daily unit sales are less than a third of the total market.

«There is an incredible appetite for eReaders and eBooks in Hong Kong but until today, a limited selection of over priced eReaders has curbed adoption,» said Chris Li of Swindon Book Co., Ltd. «By making the Kobo Wireless eReading easily available to customers at Swindon's retail and online outlets, we are solving this problem and meeting customer demand.»

2) I suspect (and this is a bit of a pet theory of mine) that Apple stays in the ebook space primarily to disrupt the educational textbook market (I think that iBooks Author + iTunesU + «cheap» iPad 2s = a strategy for fostering disruption in education at the grass - roots level); their presence in trade publishing is relatively incidental (this may have not been so at the start — I also suspect that launching iBooks along with iPad was initially a hedge against uncertainty about user adoption and viable use cases for the iPad.

You raise an important point for those who aren't writing and publishing primarily in English, and / or who live in countries where ebook adoption rates are very low.

As adoption rates for ebooks go up, users will start to see the shortcomings of current ebooks and ereader systems and start to demand more.

It's also worth noting that the vast majority of authors fall short on best practices (witness the low adoption of ebook preorders, even though preorders are proven to sell more books, or witness the large number of self published authors who design amateur - looking cover images despite the dearth of low - cost professionals who for $ 200 or less can make their cover look amazing).