Sentences with phrase «more electronic versions of books»

Amazon released a press release today that gave some evidence that it is selling way more electronic versions of books then they are the hardbound cousins.

Not exact matches

Three - fourths of more than 500 students surveyed, ages 5 - 17, said they wanted to read the paper versions of books, and more than six in 10 preferred the traditional text to reading online, even though most expect that electronic devices will be the dominant...

An ebook is more than just an electronic version of your book.

By offering both a print and electronic version of your book, you can target a larger market and reach more customers.

I would be more inspired to have the electronic version of the book when I spend $ 40 on the latest hardcopy and then lend it to a friend and they lose it.

1) Keep the books they are publishing out of electronic versions to preserve the value of their more expensive hardbacks.

Pottermore is a new online destination to purchase the electronic book versions of the popular Harry Potter... [Read more...]

However, that said, producing a trade paper is slightly more difficult than producing an electronic version of the same book.

More than a decade after the first clunky electronic books appeared, a new push is under way to get readers to curl up with digital versions of their favorite best - sellers.

(AP)-- Amazon.com Inc. is hoping to snag even more customers for the electronic books it sells by releasing a version of its Kindle e-reader software for phones that use Google Inc.'s increasingly popular Android operating system.

The Kindle 2, the second version of Amazon's breakthrough electronic book reader, is cheaper ($ 359), thinner (0.36 inches), can hold more books (more than 1,500 compared with 200), and has a longer battery life (Amazon says you can read for four to five days with wireless turned on and for longer than two weeks with it turned off) than the original.

As handheld electronic book reader devices become more popular and widely accepted, early adopters of these devices may upgrade to newer, more capable versions of these readers.

Electronic versions of books, he says, remain popular particularly with avid readers consuming one or more books per week.

For a look back at the history of Apple negotiating with book publishers and a little more on how the agency model came about, I recommend this WSJ article from 2010 and Michael Cader at Publishers Marketplace's look at how the introduction of the iPad gave publishers «the opportunity to change the basic selling terms of ebooks with at least one major trading partner in a way that lets [them] take back control of pricing and reassert their vision of the value of an electronic version of a book.»

(AP)-- Amazon.com Inc. is hoping to snag even more customers for the electronic books it sells by releasing a version of its Kindle e-reader software for phones that use Google Inc.'s increasingly popular Android operating...

This unusual maneuver, which Amazon says occurred because Orwell's publisher changed its mind about offering the electronic version of these titles, is all the more unsettling simply because readers already purchased the books and had their ownership of the item revoked.

Perhaps it's an idea that more than a few schools could exploit, saving a few bucks on the reams of paper used to produce the more traditional paper each semester, while enticing kids who are loathe to pick up a book or a magazine to take a gander at an electronic version that fits right in with their daily routine.