Sentences with phrase «more open ebook»

Shannon has presented on niche publishing at South by Southwest and the O'Reilly Tools of Change digital publishing conferences, and believes in improving digital access to information through more open ebook standards.

Not exact matches

Sony took this approach with its Reader and its Sony Connect ebook store (though it is moving to a more open approach, actively working with other retail partrners) and the new Kindle from Amazon has been built to ensure users connect to Amazon's own ebook store.
There are other brands like Onyx and Boyue but their open Android software is more suited for advanced users that know what they're getting into with regards to converting ebook formats and hunting down E Ink - friendly apps.
eBook lending, along with movie, music, and audiobook streaming, is helping these entities keep their doors open by offering the content their patrons need in the... [Read more...]
As more schools receive funding for technology, especially through literacy initiatives that help provide ebooks and devices, and as new platforms for digital comics and digital graphic novels open up, this medium stands to make a tremendous impact.
In the era of digital publishing, ebook piracy, and open sharing authoring... [Read more...]
For example, Penguin opened up with us at first, with just their backlist eBook titles, and after they were happy with our delivery of data, metrics and statistics, they felt more comfortable and opened up all of their titles.»
A more open format such as EPUB, for example, means you can move your eBooks easily from one device to another.
I just finished reading your ebook on making an ebook empire and it opened my eyes more to affiliate marketing.
For those of us interested in a more open and varied ebook market, there is a singular harsh truth we must accept:
With JustFreeBooks you can find all sorts of free ebooks for your Kindle, Nook or tablet: public domain texts, open books, free audiobooks and more.
Recently Google opened their new eBook store and obviously a solution was needed in order to make the ebooks as accessible as possible on not... [Read more...]
Similarly, the Readers Hub opens up more than «2 million ebooks, 3,500 magazines in 25 languages, and more than 2,000 newspapers in 51 languages.»
More recent versions of iOS even banned the link that Amazon used to have in the app that opened a browser window so you could purchase the ebook from the Amazon webpage.
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You can now open the application on your phone, but in order to get your custom ebook into the eReader library you need to do a few more things.
This suggests that ebook readers may be more open to big gains without the big names.
But like the much heralded success of authors Amanda Hocking and John Locke, both of whom have each sold more than one million copies of their self - published ebooks before going on to sign contracts with major publishing houses, Wilkinson is open to the idea of traditional publishing and has already heard from some print publishers, although he admits he didn't set out to be an author.
Inclusion of Open Road Integrated Media titles broadens hoopla digital's catalog of more than 440,000 movies, TV shows, music albums, eBooks, audiobooks and comics.
fb3 format is an open XML - based ebook format, also called FictionBook and is very... [Read more...]
The Open Web Platform, which includes core W3C technologies such as HTML, CSS, SVG, XML, XSLT, XSL - FO, PNG, RDF, and many more, are already extensively in eBooks and eBook production.
While the PDF capability could go a little further towards enabling more features that users should be able to expect, this does open up the possibility of reading PDF formatted ebooks.
Topics Covered Amazon Kindle 3 Special Offers Kobo to open new eBook... [Read more...]
I'm not saying open the flood gates to any old crap — they still have to curate their stable of authors to maintain their reputation — but I'm sure they could take a few more chances, what with the approaching - zero cost of launching an ebook - only title?
You can then simply open Windows Explorer and put in wallpapers, pictures, music, video, ebooks, comic books, and more.
With so much emphasis placed on the expansion into foreign markets at this year's FutureBook event, where even the major ebook distribution platforms were discussing their investment and planning in global expansion, self - published authors truly stand to benefit from the opening of larger reader markets, but only if... [Read more...]
Calibre is a free open source ebook management program and is very solid for editing your books before you copy... [Read more...]
You can also have the ability to open more than one eBook into your device.
A new entrant to the emerging realm of eBook lending services «Fling» has just opened for business and it allows eBooks that have the lending feature, such as the Barnes and... [Read more...]
And we're hard at work opening even more channels — our goal, in fact, is to create the most vibrant, multi-retail eBook publishing tool available.
Public domain classics are the easiest books to find in ebook format, largely thanks to the sterling and visionary work of Project Gutenberg (and, more recently, the Open Library, which currently promises over a million free ebook titles).
For one thing, it signals a willingness amongst emergent ebook retailers to engage in more open and inclusive practices than Amazon has demonstrated so far.
As opposed to big publishers, which are thought to pay authors a standard ebook royalty of 25 %, new independent ebook publishers like The Atavist, Open Road Media and OR Books, can and do pay authors substantially more.
«We've also made additional reading and device performance enhancements including improved page turn speed, faster access to previously opened ebooks, enhanced touch - screen navigation and more,» Paul Hochman, manager of Content and Social Media at BarnesandNoble.com, wrote in an April 23 posting on the Nook and BN eReader blog.
«We've also made additional reading and device performance enhancements, including improved page turn speed, faster access to previously opened ebooks, enhanced color touch - screen navigation and more,» Paul Hochman, manager of Content and Social Media at BarnesandNoble.com, wrote April 23 on the Nook and BN eReader blog.
• Enhanced in - store seamless connectivity to enjoy free Wi - Fi, with More In Store content promotions exclusively for Nook owners • Improved opening of eBooks and ePeriodicals • Improved response to Reading Now and Settings buttons • Current reading page and bookmarks on all eBooks are properly saved when you power your Nook off • Eligible LendMe eBooks in your library have LendMe flags • Easier navigation of daily subscriptions with issues rolled into one folder • Improved «back» button functionality for navigating eBooks and ePeriodicals • Personal files downloaded and displayed in My Documents can be sorted by author and title • Overall system improvements and battery optimization.
I have eBooks and print books available, and am contemplating audio as well, which I believe will open up even more avenues for me.
Below are free spiritual ebooks by Nirmala and Gina Lake to help you awaken, open your heart, and live more fully in the now.
If the Kindle were to become more open to various formats and drm programs (e.g. the point that you could purchase an ebook from anywhere and read it on your Kindle), I think Amazon would do very well.
As more and more countries become online and ebook consumption becomes more mainstream (because in some countries this is still a relatively new concept), this will open up even more markets for us to sell our books.
They could open the ebook market even more to a huge category of books: non-fiction.
Well as long as the Literary - Industrial Complex is pricing their eBooks at about the same price as a print paperback version, or more than a second - hand hardbound version... then indies with our more affordable eBooks have a wide - open opportunity to tempt venturesome readers with tight budgets.
It currently offers more than 200,000 open source and public domain books to readers, many of which are original and exclusive to the ebook site.
(Flavorwire) And Bexar County, Texas, is about to open BiblioTech, the first all - ebook... Read more»
I would suggest that the reason more major print publishers are open to submissions these days is because they are aware that a lot of writers, and I mean a lot, are simply turning to self - publishing ebook platforms to get their novel out into the world.
This is true even with ebooks — a totally open system would be abused much more than anti-DRM proponents realize.
There are faint glimmers of light out there (more bookstores opened last year than closed, ebook sales are down) but it's still tough out there.
There are faint glimmers of light out there (more bookstores opened last year than closed, ebook sales are down) but it's still tough out -LSB-...]
The American Library Association's (ALA) 2015 Annual Conference & Exhibition opened Thursday (25th June, #alaac15), in San Francisco with something unprecedented being offered at this year's gathering: Library SELF - e's first - ever national curated collection is now ready, an array of 200 indie ebooks that librarians can peruse and consider carrying for their patrons to check... Read More
Other updates NOOK customers will enjoy with v1.3 software include: · Reading experience: To help customers get to their content conveniently and quickly, Barnes & Noble has continued to optimize NOOK's performance with improved page turn speed, faster access to previously opened eBooks, enhanced color touch screen navigation and more.
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