Not exact matches
Contact us to have your book or document specially
formatted and published
on Amazons Kindle bookstore, Apple's iBooks, Barnes & Noble's Nook, Sony
eReader and other electronic book publishing platforms.
Amazon's recent launch of its own
eReader hardware, the Kindle, has led to some questioning about the long term plans for its Mobipocket initiative but in spite of that, the
format is well developed, based
on some widely used standards, and has a slick (free) ebook production tool.
In doing so, we will inevitably learn the limitations of this
format and begin to push the envelope
on what type of reading experiences can be delivered via
eReading devices.
On 20 July 2009, it was acquired by US bookseller Barnes and Noble who plan to adopt the
eReader format for their ebook store.
The only problem is Amazon only offers them in their proprietary
format, which sucks
on an
ereader.
Here you can download a copy of the ebook in one of several
formats and preview it
on your favorite
ereader or application.
New free eBook converter technology speeds up time to market for self - published authors seeking to capitalize
on growing e-reader usageRaleigh, NC, September 13, 2011 — Lulu.com, the leader in self - publishing, announced today the launch of the free Lulu EPUB Converter, a tool allowing content creators to convert popular word processing
formats, such as a Word document, into sellable EPUBs, the most widely adopted
format used by
eReaders.
EPUB Straight to the Point: Creating ebooks for the Apple iPad and other
ereaders by Elizabeth Castro focuses
on creating eBooks in ePub
format.
The open ePub
format used by Google can be read
on almost any
eReader technology (with the notable exception of Amazon's Kindle).
Every
formatting feature in your ebook is created using this code, which then translates to the layout seen
on your
ereading device.
Ebook: A book composed in — or converted to — digital
format for display
on a computer screen or handheld
ereading device
Our eBooks are delivered in epub
format, which can be read
on almost every popular tablet, smartphone, and
eReader.
Among the specs
on any
ereader you're considering, you can find a listing of content
formats that are supported.
Ebooks free to reviewers in any
ereader format via coupon
on Smashwords.
Completely true, if only people were more willing to do some investigation instead of blindly following the masses with incorrect information and marketing from the manufactures, I personally use a variety of different
ereaders and I am able to read any box
on all other devices by reformatting ebooks to which ever
format required.
If all three
formats are
on one Android
ereader, to figure out which book is
on which system you still need to have either a catalog system or a good memory.
Technically PDF is not an ebook, it is an electronic copy of the printed book — ebooks are a
format that can be read
on an
ereader.
(I will add that I don't usually read much non-fiction in digital
format — I like to mark up my books with underlines and Post-it notes, and that's not as intuitive for me
on eReaders.)
if you want to read fiction freely
on ereader, you should convert it to epub / mobi / pdf
format.
You will find a startling array of devices
on the market, but ultimately there are only four classes of devices
on which digital publications are consumed —
ereaders, tablets, computers, and mobile phones — and the pros and cons of each, and which epublication file
formats each can support, can be maddening without this guide.
Before you can import your ebook, you need to make sure it is in the PDB
format (not sure why ebook producers haven't decided
on a universal
format at this point, but
eReader requires PDB
format).
Because ePub is reflowable, customers can read files that are
formatted in ePub
on the NOOK dedicated
eReading device and
on iPad, iPhone / iPod touch, Android, and PC via Barnes & Noble's free NOOK
eReading software.
eReader 1.3 for iPhone Free The
eReader does a decent job of presenting books
on your iPhone, but acquiring reading matter needs to be made easier, and the software should support more file
formats.
In this document, we provide background information
on the ePub
format and guidelines for optimizing your ePub to render well across the NOOK line of
eReading products.
Our process takes all of the «junk code» that's embedded in your file, making it leaner and cleaner, and putting it in an eBook
format that we have tested
on every
eReader device or app we could find.
Although the Kindle is one of the more «closed»
ereaders, relying primarily
on its own ebook
format, plugging it into a computer gives you easy access to its 4 GB of internal memory.
The program allows you to convert online content into the EPUB or MOBI
format for viewing
on iPads,
eReaders, the Kindle, and more.
Unless they allow other
ereader apps
on the Kindle Fire they risk alienating owners who own libraries of digital content in other
formats than what the Kindle Fire supports....
Books in every
format enhance the lives of children and, as more and more children now read
on eReaders, this initiative with NOOK is a very valuable addition to this great campaign.»
My recommendation is to check out this free toolkit http://kitpdf.com/ which can easily convert your webpages into pdf files or pdf to mobi or epub
formats, so you can have a better reading experience
on the
eReader.
In the last chapter, the book explains how to take full advantage of the
formatting strengths of EPUB, while taking into account the quirks of the iBooks
ereader app
on the iPad.
When I first purchased my Pandigital
ereader I had most of my files saved
on my computer in pdf
format but found that this
format did not work well with the
ereader, so after some searching I found Calibre and was able to convert all my pdf books to epub and transfer them to my
ereader without any problems.
The list of books below is based
on the weekly downloads by our users regardless of
eReader device or file
format.
All eBook
formats are created to work
on the most popular
eReaders and are ready for distribution to Amazon, Apple, Ingram, Kobo, and more!
The Kobo
eReading service is built
on an open platform, allowing consumers to read eBooks from other stores that use the ePub
format — plus read PDF documents, and books.
Barnes & Noble uses this DRM
on their eBooks and made a contract with Adobe to add it to the Adobe RMSDK which is used to protect B&N books sold in the ePub
format and
eReader format as of December 2009.
The biggest problem is getting your content into the right
format so it can flow nicely
on all the different
eReaders.
A note
on formats:
eReaders support many
formats.
Which
format (s) to choose for which
ereader is a complex issue — other articles
on the E is for Book blog have discussed this to a degree and will in the future.
Picture books just don't lend themselves to the
format, and if the goal is to read with a child, cuddling up with the kid
on your lap to read from an
ereader while looking at the pictures together just doesn't work yet.
Built
on an open platform, Kobo Touch allows consumers to read eBooks from other stores that use the ePub
format — plus read PDF documents and books
on a growing number of Kobo
eReaders and apps.
And somehow I don't see the other major players, like Kobo and B&N, allowing Amazon apps
on their
eReaders... And I know that they also try to lock you into their ecosystems, but rather then doing so with proprietary
formats, they use DRM's.
You can alway «free» yourself: use Calibre to convert ebooks in het
format you need and you can reed it
on any
ereader
You can also extract the file
on your Kindle
eReader and convert it to other
formats such as KFX, epub or Kepub.
Writing a book is only the first step, next you also have to make sure your manuscript is properly
formatted and can be read equally well whether it's a printed copy, or an eBook being read
on the most popular
eReader devices.
The heavy
formatting requirements of music, and the need to see a much larger «picture»
on the music stand make
eReaders unusable.
Anyways I thought it would be fun to convert one of my «for free» stories
on this website into the
eReader format.
If you're not familiar with Smashwords, and you have an
eReader and are worried about
formats, don't be: the vast majority of Smashwords authors opt to publish their books in a range of electronic
formats, meaning you can read Smashwords books
on your PC, Kindle, Nook, Sony Reader, Kobo Reader etc etc..
Via Smashwords Freaks in The City is available in
formats that can be read
on pretty much every
eReader device imaginable, including mobi for Kindle or the older MobiPocket Readers.
``... I am researching the time it takes
on average to convert from PDF to EPUB, including the time it takes to edit the «rough» EPUB file created by the automated conversion to clean up the
formatting errors, resulting in a «clean» EPUB suitable for display
on an
eReader device.