Sentences with phrase «much smaller ebook»

Add to it the much smaller ebook store at B & N, and the customer support issue, which you mentioned, and it is clear that Kindle wipes the floor with nook.

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I'd guess that ebook piracy is a much smaller issue than people make it out to be right now.

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As much as people want to consider Barnes and Noble a major factor in the eBook industry, they are relegated to a fairly small overall market share.

You can adjust how small or large it is, and depending on the reading device or app you use, you can often change font type, font weight, text alignment, spacing — and with tools like Calibre you can pretty much format an ebook any way you want if you're determined to do so.

This is because the audio book market is still relatively small compared to the ebook market making discoverability much easier.

It's important that you keep in mind what I mentioned earlier about to much clutter with regards to elements included in your design and a reason being is that online shelves display eBook covers as small thumbnails at a size of about 80 x 115 pixels.

Ebooks have a much smaller share of the adult nonfiction market, 12 %, but sales in the segment rose 3 % last year, to 38 million unit.»

With dedicated e-ink readers such as the Kindle ($ 69) or the Kindle Paperwhite ($ 119) being much cheaper than that, the choice could boil down to a cheaper but a bigger full - fledged ebook reader or a smaller and hence more portable smartphone add - on that costs a bit more.

I'd guess midlist author paper sales on bookstore shelves are much smaller, percentage wise, than their ebook sales (legacy or self - pub).

People probably don't realize just how much the Agency Model hurts smaller ebook stores.

Unless * publishers * actively embrace lower prices on ebooks, and start pricing their books low enough for retailers to discount them down to indie levels and still make a small profit, I don't think the indie pricing range ($ 1 - 6) is in as much danger as some folks think it is.

I forsee much screaming when ebooks finally come into their own in that part of the world (particularly with small publishers and independents removing those antiquated region barriers...)

WiFi has a much shorter range than 3G (typically just enough to reach around the home) but several advantages: It's free (included in the broadband internet cost you're already paying), and it's faster than 3G but this is less important for ebooks which are currently quite small files.

At a certain level of success as an author, it makes a lot of sense to go for the much broader print market in large volume than the smaller ebook market with higher average royalties.

Are you describing a much smaller publisher that might only be interested in the print and / or eBook rights?

A smaller operator is going to have think seriously about how much time and money it can put into ascertaining and managing the maze of territorial rights across thousands of ebook titles.

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There's no word yet of which publishers will be likely to support Google Editions but it's hard to see Google having much trouble attracting publishers who will welcome more competition and Google's plans to make ebook selling accessible to smaller players.

It's been fifteen months since I signed the contract for my debut memoir, with a small start up publisher; and since so much changed in the industry this past summer, with more people buying ebooks, I'm telling myself this time frame is understandable.

If the contract clauses don't show Amazon's intentional strategy at sabotaging competitors and are only a well - thought safeguard, then the same train of thought used by the judge in the US case above can not be called on, mainly because Amazon has a much smaller piece of the eBook market share in Europe than it has in the US.

What this meant was that Kindle owners bought ebooks in numbers much greater than the relatively small number of devices placed would have suggested.

The royalties I'm getting on my paperback sales are much smaller than my ebook royalties, too.

Therefore, reading ebooks on smaller screens is much more pleasant than fixed - layout pdf documents.

You're not likely to make much per book, but thanks to the economics of the digital bookstore, you are likely to make a sizable amount — so long as you gather a small team of editors and designers, and focus on releasing as many ebooks as possible.

«Ebooks haven't accounted for much in terms of overall sales,» Núñez says, «but then how could they have done if catalogs were so small?

A smaller, more selective ebook collection accompanied by competent staff and a collections management plan makes for a much better user experience.

I do think with advances getting smaller and ebooks being forever that it is much less of a factor than in the past when it was often stated that 7 out of 10 books did not ever earn out.

That alone will keep iBooks as a second and MUCH smaller player in the ebook world.

However, Oyster is, of course, a much smaller operation than Amazon's Kindle and widening its business model to retail has got to be a good move with the uncertain and untried economics of ebook subscriptions.

The addition of a 6 - inch touchscreen makes interacting with the device much more enjoyable than non-touch eBook readers, and it also helps make the size of the device perfect for carrying in a small bag or even a coat pocket.

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