Ryan Deiss's Kindle Publishing Revolution does an excellent job of introducing the best ways to take advantage of take advantage of publishing with the Amazon Kindle, including topics
like reader preferences for crucial topics like:
But it looks
like reader preferences are shifting toward ebooks; assuming that trend keeps up, that's saying the same thing, we'll help you find information and recreational reading that we pay for for you, you don't need to pay for it individually — but only on old crusty print that you don't actually want.
Not exact matches
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.
Whereas Kobo is quite open about allowing the user to customize their reading experience to their
preferences — fonts, margins, paragraph spacing, contrast, 3rd - party
readers like KoReader etc. — Kindle's attitude is «you'll read it with OUR
preferences or you won't read it at all».
If you're using InDesign to export to epub, it will embed fonts... but you don't want to embed fonts for the main body content; that text needs to be flowable it will adapt to
readers set
preferences (otherwise they will complain that your book doesn't look
like all the other books on their kindle).
Avid
readers begin to shift away from services
like Scribd, Oyster and Unlimited in
preference for genre specific and niche - based subscription services that provide them genuine curation and undiscovered talent.
Characteristics
like font styles and sizes, leading (line spacing), and even page orientation, are all dynamic, and they can change from one device to the next or along with your
reader's
preferences.
Third, it not only lets
readers select the genres they
like, it lets them indicate their
preferences about language, violence, and sexual content, too.
I found myself using both as I am one of those
readers who doesn't have a strong format
preference and
likes switching between e-books and audiobooks.
I think this shows there is a need for more user - friendly ways to read e-books on hand - held devices
like tablets or e-book
readers in
preference to desktop or laptop computers.8
The more we know about your
preferences and predilections, the better prepared we'll be to ensure that the Business of Law Blog delivers the kind of content that resonates most with
readers like you.