While 10 % of the UK students reported
never reading an ebook, that number jumped to 46 % for global students.
Unfortunately, some of the readers who get onto your list via a freebie
never read the ebook.
I am another person who has
never read an eBook.
I, for one, have
never read an eBook, and I have no plans on doing so.
But I do recommend trying for both mediums, as there are many people who will
never read an ebook.
I have
never read an ebook because I just do not enjoy the experience.
I never read ebooks, and I hope I never have too.
Not exact matches
I've
never recommended an
eBook before, but I'll happily note that the glorious color in the
eBook edition of Roman Pilgrimage may yet convert me to
reading -(at - least - some - books)- on - a-tablet, a confession this veteran paper guy
never expected to make.
I've
never even
read an
ebook before butI wouldn't mind
reading this one!
Many will not be able to afford better than secondhand prices for books in general, which counts them out of buying most if not all
ebooks, and
never mind the expense of a device to actually
read them on.
Regardless, if a lower price means less interest, millions of
ebooks could be languishing on ereaders and might
never be
read.
Never thought I'd
read ebooks but have been using the Kindle app on my computer (airbook) for about 18 months.
(cont'd)- I'm giving away hundreds of listings on the Vault, and as a result of doing so, won't see one thin dime of income on the site until October or later - Given all the time and money I've already sunk into developing the site, I don't even expect to earn back my upfront investment until sometime next year - I'm already personally reaching out to publishers on behalf of authors who are listed in the Vault, on my own time and my own long distance bill, despite the fact that I don't stand to earn so much as a finder's fee if any of those contacts result in an offer - I make my The IndieAuthor Guide available for free on my author site and blog - I built Publetariat, a free resource for self - pubbing authors and small imprints, by myself, and paid for its registration, software and hosting out of my own pocket - I shoulder all the ongoing expense and the lion's share of administration for the Publetariat site, which since its launch on 2/11 of this year, has only earned $ 36 in ad revenue; the site
never has, and likely
never will, earn its keep in ad revenue, but I keep it going because I know it's a valuable resource for authors and publishers - I've given away far more copies of my novels than I've sold, because I'm a pushover for anyone who emails me to say s / he can't afford to buy them - I paid my own travel expenses to speak at this year's O'Reilly Tools of Change conference, nearly $ 1000, just to be part of the Rise of
Ebooks panel and raise awareness about self - published authors who are strategically leveraging ebooks - I judge in self - published book competitions, and I read the * entire * book in every case, despite the fact that the honorarium has never been more than $ 12 per book — a figure that works out to less than $.50 per hour of my time spent reading and commenting In spite of all this, you still come here and elsewhere to insinuate I'm greedy and only out to take advantage of my fellow au
Ebooks panel and raise awareness about self - published authors who are strategically leveraging
ebooks - I judge in self - published book competitions, and I read the * entire * book in every case, despite the fact that the honorarium has never been more than $ 12 per book — a figure that works out to less than $.50 per hour of my time spent reading and commenting In spite of all this, you still come here and elsewhere to insinuate I'm greedy and only out to take advantage of my fellow au
ebooks - I judge in self - published book competitions, and I
read the * entire * book in every case, despite the fact that the honorarium has
never been more than $ 12 per book — a figure that works out to less than $.50 per hour of my time spent
reading and commenting In spite of all this, you still come here and elsewhere to insinuate I'm greedy and only out to take advantage of my fellow authors.
There will
never be much variety in how
ebook reading apps based on Adobe's RMSDK behave.
Finally, a lot of readers are still
reading ebooks in PDF file format, because they just don't care about the benefits of reflowable text (EPUB + KF8, formats they've
never heard of).
In 2013 I made the effort to get on Fiberead to get my titles into China, even though the dogmatists insisted China was a backward, insular society that didn't know what
ebooks were and would
never be allowed to
read western books.
I
never understood why
ebooks are costlier than say a paperback, the cost of printing and paper being removed and the thing that we don't actually own it but just a license to
read the
eBook.
For those who are
reading pirated
eBooks not in the public domain, I do agree that there should be some penalty, but instead of going after the downloaders, who in many cases
never know if the title was originally a free one or not, I would suggest that it would be more expedient and easier to discover and punish the uploaders instead.
Despite their perceived popularity, 60 % of
eBooks downloaded are
never read in the US.
If you're looking a cheap tablet for basic stuff like web browsing,
reading eBooks and playing multimedia files while
never bothering so much about battery life, then the Asus Memo Pad 7 ME176C might just be your best bet.
You've
never read a fairy tale like our Kindle Nation
eBook of the Day before.
Plus,
read about why you should
never do that in your
ebook outputs.
Apple of course has their own iBooks
reading app, but I always caution people about buying from iBooks because the
ebooks are permanently locked into Apple's ecosystem for good and can
never be
read on any other devices.
As of this writing, 94 % of respondents to my unscientific poll stated they either avoid
reading serialized
ebooks, or they
never read them.
We also encourage having an
eBook version of your title in addition to your print version since you
never know how your audience will prefer to
read.
You'll
never run out of
reading material with storage of up to 3,000
eBooks.
I do not want the gifted book to simply become another file among my many thousands of already - owned
ebook files — a file that once
read will most likely
never be seen again.
I have many
ebooks that I will probably
never read again.
The Kobo eBookstore gives you access to over 5 million
eBooks and your Kobo Aura lets you store up to 3,000
eBooks so you'll
never be without a great
read.
(Windows)
Never to be outdone, Microsoft of course has their own free
eBook reading program for Windows only platforms.
There's a lot of books on Amazon's «free
ebook» lists that I'd
never want to
read, but it still makes me smile to see them all out there, each one struggling bravely to find their own audience.
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Reading Ape's Blog and commented: TOP TIP:
Never use your
eBook file to create a paperback!
#ebooklove... I
read a book a week... I enjoy long suspenseful, heavy (weight) novels...
ebooks all are iPad Air weight so I can hold them comfortably and I
never loose my page.
I've always preferred to
read and write novel - length fiction, but the
ebook has brought back the short story, the novella, and the serial (among other things), story formats that were
never that practical outside of magazines (and even then, it had been a while since you saw many novellas and serials).
We are quite happy with the rise of
eBook lending sites, that help facilitate the love of
reading from users who have
never met each other before.
With simple to use formatting and uploading for indie authors to any number of
ebook distribution platforms, the ability to discover great new
reading material has
never been easier.
I truly enjoy
reading print books and
never thought I would ever
read an
eBook.
One literary agent announced he would
never ever
read an
eBook, period.
I do have quite a lot of
ebooks and like to
read them, but I would
never want to be without print books as well.
I
never buy stuff from Amazon (in fact I am yet to buy an
ebook at all; in my area of interest there are tons of technical and scanned pdf files for me to
read).
So, I ask, why include pixels that will
never actually be seen by anyone not
reading your
ebook on a super-high-definition 30» computer monitor?
Amazon's
ebook selection is still the best around and with apps for most smartphones and tablets it's easy to switch your
reading between devices - hook them all up to Wi - Fi and you'll
never lose your page.
I walked through a painful, 9 year journey of Early - onset Alzheimer's diesease with my dad, and have often felt promoted to share my journey in hopes of helping someone else who may be going through something similar; however, I
never felt that I had what it takes to put together an
ebook, until
reading this post!
The thing is I just want
ebooks to look like paper books for the most part, and I've
never once
read a paper book that had orange or black paper.
This may mean some opportunities for indies, with the caution that a lot of people have yet to try
reading ebooks, and some probably
never will.
Furthermore, the study also shows that 80 % surveyed would
never consider buying a dedicated
ebook reading device.
Your answer may be
never, since the major
eBook reading systems have been slow to adopt the IDPF's recommended specification.
Also, you
never know if your
ebook will still
read well in your new ereader.
If you really want to share Kindle
ebooks instead of having a family member choose the method in which they want to
read the book (i.e. purchase a hard copy or use the library), you can either (1) purchase additional Kindles for your family members and share the
ebooks that way, or (2) physically lend them your Kindle (which I notice critics
never accept as a real possibility).
The problem (from the perspective of a
reading system) is this: readers need top - level margins to make the text digestible, but we can
never unambiguously tell if the
ebook designer has already included top - level margins in the design.