This potential app might be good news for everyone in the Blackberry sphere who is really looking for
a mainstream reading app to hit their platform.
Not exact matches
Their
app store was fairly feeble and developers needed to employ a complicated SDK in order to list their
apps, this is why most
mainstream... [
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The biggest news, though, is that we're working with a number of major publishers (and important smaller ones) to provide a storefront that contains deluxe digital graphic novels aimed at the «real
mainstream,» the audience for graphic novels that
reads Maus or Fun Home or Dotter of Her Father's Eyes but would never think of going into a comic shop guarded by a dodgy life - size statue of She - Hulk... We think the immersive «lean back» experience that tablets provide, along with purchase ease - of - use and the ubiquitous availability that
app stores provide, can, if handled right, create a sea change in the consumption of graphic novels — and, if we have our way, the whole thing will have absolutely * nothing * to do with superheroes.
You won't find a single comic
app by a
mainstream company anywhere on
app world.The only
reading app available is Press Reader, which gives you newspaper replicas of thousands of papers in the world.
EPUB test, the DAISY initiative created with
mainstream publishing organisations BISG and IDPF provides a way to test different
reading Apps with a series of uniform tests to establish how well they support the EPUB ebook format.
The main Kobo
reading application allows you to do the same things as most other
mainstream apps.
Android tablets have a wellspring of Indy
Reading Apps and
mainstream ones to choose from.
Barnes & Noble's NOOK and the Kobo ereaders are now the only
mainstream ePUB readers, but you can get the Adobe Digital Editions
app for most smartphones and tablets, which will allow you to
read ebooks in the ePUB format.]
It's nice to see publishers trying to reach casual comics readers via
mainstream bookstores, but the
reading experience is better in Comixology's Comics
app, which was purpose - built for
reading comics.
We have all these really interesting people and very interesting creations that people are interested in
reading, but the
mainstream comic book
apps are more like a storefront for existing popular properties.
Now that digital comics have gone
mainstream, there's no shortage of programs and
apps to
read them on.