«We have been licensing our PDF and ePub technology to
a number of eBook vendors.
ePub, on the other hand, is an open, XML based eBook standard, and is used by a huge
number of eBook vendors... indeed, it's easily the standard for current ebook publishing.
In a press statement, Erik Bryant, assistant vice president of sales, said: «We have been licensing our PDF and ePub technology to a number of eBook vendors.
Only a small
number of ebook vendors (actually, Springer is the only one I know of) allow for any sort of ILL, which means that the more our book collections go digital, the less we will be able to loan to other libraries or borrow from other libraries.
Not exact matches
Whatever the real
number clearly Amazon remains the leading
ebook vendor and its continuing refusal to support library lending locks libraries out
of the most popular format from the
vendor with the best title selection and the lowest prices.
With the release
of myriad devices and formats,
number of online
vendors, and confusing search functionality, consumers often get lost in the
ebook space,» said David Nussbaum, Chairman & CEO, F+W Media, in a press release yesterday.
I have a theory that some
of the pricier
vendors might be more inclined to list books with Amazon rankings that are already decent — so to begin, I submitted my.99 cent sale to a
number of no - cost «
ebook deal» websites that will advertise a DISCOUNTED
ebook at no charge.
To accommodate a growing market in a
number of countries, Sony is opening up its support for DRM protected
ebooks by allowing users to download Adobe EPUB and PDF
ebooks from a wide variety
of vendors, so you aren't just tied into the Sony
eBook Store.
You can find
ebook apps and access bookstores from a
number of vendors on iOS and the latest addition comes from Sony.
ebook reader (two Kindles and the Onyx 92 preceded it) and I have tried a
number of others and it seems that Amazon is the only
vendor with a solid firmware base.