Sentences with phrase «future reader devices»

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The question is hardly academic in my business; publications are scratching their heads as to how many readers will be using devices to access publications in the future, and how much resources they should devote to meet that demand.

For one, Amazon, like other e-book sellers, has used a scheme known as «digital rights management» (DRM), which limits the types of devices that can read certain e-book formats.259 Compelling readers to purchase a Kindle through cheap e-books locks them into future e-book purchases from Amazon.260 Moreover, buying — or even browsing — e-books on Amazon's platform hands the company information about your reading habits and preferences, data the company uses to tailor recommendations and future deals.261 Replicated across a few more purchases, Amazon's lock - in becomes strong.

But that ebook won't be readable in any device that doesn't directly support Microsoft Reader, limiting the purchaser's options for reading it and, almost certainly, making it unreadable at some point in the future when the technology has long been superseded.

So the Kindle proposition is this: You pay for downloadable books that can't be printed, can't be shared, and can't be displayed on any device other than Amazon's own $ 400 reader — and whether they're readable at all in the future is solely at Amazon's discretion.

When Amazon started meeting with publishers about the Kindle, its future e-book reader, in 2006, the device may well have seemed to them like just another goofy Amazon idea.

One of the most common issues people have when buying a dedicated reader is regarding eBook formats and whether they will still be able to read their purchases if they change devices in the future.

«For every author who meticulously examines the latest developments in physics or computing, there are other authors who invent «impossible» technology to serve as a plot device (like Le Guin's faster - than - light communicator, the ansible) or to enable social commentary, the way H. G. Wells uses his time machine to take the reader to the far future to witness the calamitous destiny of the human race.»

With cheaper hardware components due out in a few months, most electronic reader companies such as Barnes and Noble, Asus, Fujitsu, iRex, Astak and others will be putting out future devices for its audience.

This makes sure libraries have long - term compatibility with all the new mobile devices and screens that are in our future and in our readers» future.

This marriage creates a solution for both, creators to future - proof content online; and for readers to experience those stories via PC, web, tablet, smartphone, game consoles, set - top boxes and into augmented and virtual reality devices.

What's better for the future of books — dedicated readers getting dedicated eReaders or them getting a multi-purpose device?

Electronic readers (e-readers), those increasingly popular devices that replace ink on paper, may have color displays in the future thanks to new advances in display technology.

But if you think that a reader will be just one function of, say, a multitouch tablet that's also your netbook, PDA and video display — and it's a device you charge every night — it's pretty clear that a multi-talented LCD display is the future.

E-books are doubtless the future of reading, and Sony's newest device, the «Reader Daily Edition» makes good by supporting on open e-book format.

The adoption of Pearl should be more widespread as ebook reader manufacturers upgrade devices in the future.

I know there are some Cult of Mac readers who don't like concept designs, but like patents which never become products, I think they offer an interesting glimpse at a future device or piece of software we may never get to use — but which could be pretty great if implemented correctly.

Fortunately, with the Anniversary update for the platform expected this summer, the support for fingerprint readers will be added to Mobile and future devices can include both iris and fingerprint scanners.