Find a developer in your own area, or someone who has experience
making eBook apps already, so that you can have more control over the design and functionality of the app (you can sometimes find developers in your own town through websites like Craigslist).
The other way it could work is if
you make an ebook app for those who sincerely prefer scrolling over pagination and are willing to compromise to get it.
Not exact matches
If you want to
make more of an investment, I'm a huge fan of the new Nabi 2 Tablet which is a real, functioning Android tablet — albeit one with very good parental controls and curated
eBooks,
apps and videos that you can feel good about your kids seeing.
Forget needing to use multiple dating
apps, I have put together this exclusive
ebook detailing how Im
making money.
In terms of the skills needed to use tablet devices such as iPads, research has shown that the majority of pre-schoolers can open
apps on their own, finger trace on the screen, swipe to turn
eBook pages and use story
making apps independently.
The Book Creator
app was what tied everything together
making, it possible to integrate all the multimedia into one interactive
ebook.
You'll also have a choice to
make: whether you opt to produce an
app or an
ebook.
Formerly the BlackBerry
app only worked with audiobooks and now that it supports library
ebooks as well, that
makes four different mobile platforms you can get free
ebooks from libraries with — Android, iPad / iPhone, Windows Mobile, BlackBerry — plus desktop computers of course.
Mobile devices let users
make calls and send text messages, browse the web, read
ebooks, view video and listen to audio, and to use any of over 1 million free and paid
apps.
Though Amazon actually eats a loss of an estimated $ 18 for every Kindle sold due to manufacturing costs and other factors, the company
makes up for it through sales of
ebooks and
apps, RBC said.
What I love about Book Creator is that you can create your content in any
app you want and then bring that content into the
app to
make it into an
ebook, sovaldi sale documenting a learning journey or demonstrating understanding.
Additionally, Kobo customers can now earn points for every
eBook and magazine purchase
made online or with Kobo's
app.
The new
app should change all of that, as the Nations largest bookseller
makes a serious play to incorporate audio into their extensive library of
eBooks, magazines, newspapers, graphic novels and movies / television.
Bookviser, the
ebook reading
app for the Windows Phone platform has announced an update that will
make it compatible with the latest Windows Phone 8 version.
Reading is
making a comeback around the world due to new technology in a variety of
ebook readers and
apps for cell phones, tablets, and computers.
So while the
app looks great and page turns almost look like a real book, users have often complained about the inability to maximize the
ebook experience to
make the most of available screen space and so on.
Scholastic, the award - winning powerhouse in children's publishing,
made a announcement today that their
ebook reading
app Storia would be closing,
making way for a bigger focus on its Storia School Edition subscription reading program.
This has been
made possible via an
app that was launched on Wednesday and will offer unlimited
ebook downloads for the... [Read more...]
Each of the «Big - 5» could easily setup an
ebook distribution website of their own and just
make an e-reader
app for android, iOS, and windows OS.
Micahel Kowalski, Padify: Padify
makes it easier to repackage your content into
ebooks, digital magazines or
apps for publication on iPads or other mobile devices.
In other words there are more than twice as many
eBooks than games... I saw one
eBook dev split up a book into three parts just to
make it three
apps...
That is, sell
ebooks through an
app for iPads and iPhones by taking customers to a web browser to
make those purchases (without also having an in -
app purchase option).
Then there are some noteworthy changes
made to the
app's
eBook reader interface where you can tap the screen while reading a book to reveal an option - packed menu that presents you with various options to
make your reading experience as convenient as desired.
Needless to say, the Bluefire
App could
make a real difference for folks who might be getting into
ebooks this coming holiday season, and would like to continue to support their local library.
Even without the social features or the highlighting features, Readmill's UI, design, and typography are enough to
make it, in my opinion, the best
ebook reading
app available for iOS devices.
So
ebook developers need to do QA on
apps on iOS and Android
apps, as well as devices, to
make sure your readers are seeing what you want them to.
Sue Atkins Author of «Raising Happy Children for Dummies» and The Parenting
Made Easy»
ebooks and
App
From syncing your books across devices to purchasing from a variety of retail partners, it's a pretty compelling proposition for relatively uninformed book lovers who've not yet
made the switch to
ebooks and have presumably not heard of a little company called Amazon and their newfangled Kindle ereader and related
apps.
Graphicly, a former digital comics distributor that now offers a similar self - publishing service, will publish for free on the web (and take 30 % of sales as its share) but charges $ 150 to
make the comic into an
ebook and $ 500 to create an
app.
Graphicly, a former digital comics distributor that now offers a similar self - publishing service, will publish for free on the web (and take 30 % of sales as their share) but charges $ 150 to
make the comic into an
ebook and $ 500 to create an
app.
At this year's Digital Book World, Seth Kaufman, Vice President of Merchandising & Marketing for Copia, shared some of the other features that are
making Copia and its white - label
ebook platform a popular
app.
Amazon is betting on its latest generation of devices to function like cash registers, where the hardware is severely discounted and
makes up for the difference with Amazon Prime,
ebooks, videos,
apps, and a wide array of content.
Giant 10.1 inch screen Great Speakers Excellent
eBook experience Google Play
makes it easy to download new
apps Two Cameras Huge Keyboard
makes typing easy
And while they don't
make a separate
ebook or
app for each comic, they do put them in the comiXology storefront, which is the biggest digital comics store in existence right now.
While Vellum's price tag is supposed to let authors
make one version of their
ebooks that look streamlined and professional then upload it to all retail platforms, the price of the service is fairly close to what some formatters would charge to produce the different file versions of the books, and all the author has to do there is email the original document of the book without going through the laborious process of formatting it within the
app.
It
makes some sense that they would want out of the tablet market for good, since other tablets can run the Nook
app, but how would they be a competitive
ebook vendor if there are no dedicated e-readers compatible with their books?
Instead of
making a dedicated
app to conform to the
ebook format, they
made the
ebook format available to be read on existing platforms in tablets, iPhones, computers, and every other mobile device.
The only thing that might
make this even better is if they actually
made an iBooks
app for Android, so people could read their
eBooks and audiobooks purchased via iBooks on open android eReaders, but still be able to sync it with iCloud, and have progress, notes, etc., be synced to iBooks for Mac or iOS devices.
The
app, Vellum, is supposed to
make the entire formatting and distributing process even easier and more professional - looking, with real time live previews, then allow authors to distribute that same file (re: the same work they did once) to all of the
ebook retailers.
You can customize the look of the
app to
make it suit your reading way and experience the best of this Android
eBook reader
app.
This
eBook Reader
app is free to download and use, but requires the signing of Amazon account for
making the purchase of the
eBooks.
While the separation
makes using HTML for documents and
ebooks more difficult, it is essential for it becoming an
app platform, which obviously now the web's primary purpose.
I'm not certain if this was suggested, but it would be great if Lulu had their own
eBook reader
app that allowed lulu customers to
make a stand alone
app of their book (s) for the iTunes store.
Selena likes to
make it as easy to read her books as possible, which is why they're in
ebook, paperback, and audio formats, in four languages, on the Radish Fiction
app, online, on bookstore shelves, and at your local library.
Rakuten Kobo has introduced Kobo Super Points, a new loyalty program that allows Kobo customers to instantly earn points for every
eBook and magazine purchase they
make online or with Kobo's free reading
app.
The
ebook readers never managed to reach the mark set by Kindle, but Kobo is definitely trying to
make up for it by releasing its very own android ereader
app.
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.
The great thing about getting your
eBooks ready for smartphone use is the number of
apps available that
make it very easy for your readers to access and enjoy your work, even if they don't have a dedicated e-reader device.
Thanks for all the info, I was wondering if you know of an iOS
ebook app that supports doc files, because of my job I have to read a lot of documents but I don't want to convert every one to
ebook so I can read it, besides kindle (that
makes a little difficult to manage the files) do you know if something like that exists?
If you want to
make sure that your published works get the most exposure possible, format your
eBooks so that they look amazing across all e-reader platforms and
apps.