United Kingdoms The Guardian is a major news agency and is getting into the short
form ebook game to compete with Amazon.
Not exact matches
This has been attributed to the understanding on the part of the students that the tablet contains far more interesting
forms of entertainment than
ebooks, and that rushing through to the end will afford the students the opportunity to play
games or engage with social media.
Whether it's graphic novels, interactive
ebooks, or even tablet - based
games that require some
form of reading to play the
game, all of these can keep the momentum for reading fun and interesting.
The first major competitor to the Apple iPad has arrived in the
form of the Samsung Galaxy Tab, a 7 - inch Android - powered tablet and ereader that can browse the web in all its Flash - enabled glory, play 1080p HD movies and 3D
games, video chat with its front and rear facing cameras, and download and read
ebooks -LSB-...]
This process has actually been ongoing for quite some time and began with the emergence of tools that digitized the back - end of the business; word processors, computers, design software, email and much more (which changed writing, editing, typesetting, design etc) and has over time moved from there towards more front facing aspects of the industry (production, distribution, selling) before starting to make a large impact on the consumer side of the industry, consumption in the
form of
ebooks and web - reading (not to mention making many other
forms of content from music to
games available to those consumers).
It also just feels better in my hand, which makes me think that the 7 inch
form factor might be better for reading
eBooks, surfing the web, or doing just about anything short of playing
games or watching movies where a bigger screen is generally better.
Officially described as «data which is produced and supplied in digital
form» this includes things like computer
games, films, downloaded music,
ebooks or mobile phone apps.