Sentences with phrase «number of ebooks offered»

Expanding the number of ebooks offered, by eliminating exclusivity, would be the next evolution in better serving their avid reading customers.

Our new partnership with Simon & Schuster will help us accomplish just that by dramatically increasing the number of ebooks we offer.

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Ebooks come in a number of flavors, but for the purposes of this discussion I'm going to stick with the most common and most malleable format of ebook, the ePub file that is the basis of all of the major retailers» ebook offerings.

While the numbers remain small — only a total of thirty - three libraries offer some form of ebooks — it's the high rate of... [Read more...]

This has prompted a number of notable companies to offer eBooks, magazines and newspapers as part of the in - flight entertainment system to fill the void.

But with survey data from as recently as 2012 indicating that the majority of library patrons in the US didn't even know their public libraries could lend ebooks, despite the current numbers that 90 % of American libraries offer digital lending, there's an obvious disconnect between the services offered and patron adoption.

According to Library Journal's «2013 Report on E-Books in Public Libraries», where 89 % of US public libraries offer eBooks, collection size and circulation have increased: 45 % increase in median number of e-books between 2012 (5,080) and 2013 (7,380) 145 % circulation increase from 2011 to 2012 (with anticipated 2013 increase of +38.9 %) These numbers reflect all points of access, including those directly licensed or purchased by an individual library and those available through a consortium.

As August winds to a close, there are a number of ebook readers and related items on sale, so I decided to put them all together in one long list instead of doing separate posts for each offer.

As part of your publishing package, Book Country will provide you with a number of documents explaining the publishing process and offering ideas for how best to market and promote your eBook.

Operating System: The Kindle Voyage has a basic operating system with few customization options, but it runs smoothly and offers a lot of features for ebooks; the M96 runs Android 4.0 and can be customized with a number of apps.

Where the Amazon Kindle en Espanol catalog launched in 2012 with a minor smattering of titles compared to its offering in English, that number of ebooks has now doubled.

According to an article by Michael Kelley of The Digital Shift, Amazon launched its lending program in early November with only 5,000 titles — paltry compared to a public library's offering of titles through OverDrive, such as the Columbus Public Library's offering of over 17,000 ebooks — but that number quickly grew to over 66,000 by the following month.

This new offering has a Buy It Now feature which allows patrons to click to purchase a book that they have enjoyed reading on a handheld device, a feature that encourages the already high number of book sales that occur after an ebook has been borrowed.

With a Kindle ebook giveaway, we give you the opportunity to offer a large number of free books, reaching even more readers.

Billed as the Netflix of reading, ebook subscriptions have kept a similar pricepoint — Oyster's is $ 9.95 a month for both the app - based and web - based option to read unlimited numbers of ebooks — while trying to offer compelling content.

The number of libraries now offering eBooks is certainly growing at an exponential rate.

Catalog numbers weren't available as of press time, but Spring Design claims that Borders will offer hundreds of thousands of eBooks.

B&N offers an array of apps and software that allow users to buy and read eBooks from a large number of devices beyond the Nook.

Since Sony's launch of the CONNECT eBooks Store last year, the number of downloadable eBooks offered has expanded to more than 20,000 titles with new ones added weekly.

A number of companies currently offer digitization services that operate well within the law; companies can digitize their back data for storage, and readers can order ebook copies of out - of - print and rare editions.

GoodEReader.com has covered a number of publishing houses that have constructed ebook - only imprints which offer an amazing amount of output in titles, as well as unheard of royalties to their author clients.

The USA is currently the only country that has a number of libraries that offer broader access to ebooks.

By showing to the readers the huge discrepancy between the number of titles available on Amazon and at their library, by showing that we indies would like to offer our ebooks to the librarians.

Txtr is focused on international growth more than ever and continues to offer localized ebook stores in a number of different countries.

There is a growing number of sources for ebooks and many of these are not offered on Amazon.

It would allow Kindles to read non-DRM'd epubs from the growing number of indie ebook stores that offer them, without losing their lock on existing customers.

PubSoft's publisher dashboard currently offers far too many features to identify, but highlights include a publisher - branded interface for the growing number of readers who are seeking out publisher websites for information on their favorite authors, a branded ebook store where their readers can purchase titles, real - time data on tracking book sales and royalties, and more.

Obviously, a number of publishers are upset about this and feel it's just another example of Amazon using its considerable status to make demands on the publishers; another contract term that has raised ire is the requirement that the publisher inform Amazon before offering its titles to another retailer at a lower price, despite the fact that this requirement is actually in accordance with a German law that requires all booksellers to sell each specific title at the same price throughout the country, including ebooks.

Just think of how much higher that number could be if iBooks were available on other platforms, and if Apple offered a dedicated ebook reader equivalent to the Kindle.

This week there were a number of posts offering free ebooks and audiobooks.

A Growing Online Store Since Sony's launch of the CONNECT ™ eBooks Store last year, the number of downloadable eBooks offered has expanded to more than 20,000 titles with new ones added weekly.

You can sign up for most library cards online for free, and if your local library doesn't have ebooks there are a number of out - of - state libraries that offer non-resident library cards for a yearly fee.

Very few high schools offer eBooks as part of the curriculum (a number that's sure to rise).

With more than half the population using smartphones — a number that continues to grow almost exponentially — QR codes offer a new way for you to market your ebook and take advantage of this innovative method to increase your ebook sales.

The Digital Reader has reported that KDP is now offering data on price points for ebooks: «The service draws on Amazon's vast database of past sales data and analyzes the relationship between price changes and number of copies sold.

The Boston Public Library subscribes to the OverDrive ebook offering and there are a number of titles in ePub format.

Some companies, like Formatting Experts at www.formattingexperts.com, offer custom cover design and ebook formatting for a number of platforms such as mobi, epub, etc..

The number of libraries in the UK offering eBooks is still limited, and the management of digital copies is still hilariously archaic, but that the ability to «borrow» digital copies of books for free is there at all goes a massive way to compensating for the frankly abysmal options for purchasing eBooks for a Sony Reader.

There is a growing number of sites that offer nothing more than ebooks that are free to download, and available in many ebook formats, including mobi and epub.

Get even more creative and offer a random free ebook prize to some number of lucky winners every month.

A diminuitive, fast and well - priced eBook reader that doesn't only meet its competition feature by feature but also offers a number of unique features besides being the one of the smaller yet most capable eReader devices around.

Since the device doesn't offer built - in calendar functionality, a number of alternatives has emerged in the form eBooks.

Although ill - named, the Nook is a worthy competitor to the Kindle, offering a number of features not found on the Amazon device, including LendMe, a feature that allows for controlled sharing of ebooks.

So when we're analyzing the value a traditional publisher offers us, the numbers of print readers versus ebook readers don't matter beyond royalty percentage concerns.

Powell's Books, for example, has offered Adobe Digital Editions for a number of years and also offers Google eBooks in PDF format.

There are a number of ebook subscription services cropping up lately, but Scribd is the only one offering audiobooks in addition to ebooks, along with Amazon's Kindle Unlimited service.

Given that a growing number of authors are e-only — or at least start as an ebook before moving on to print — this offers a new way to reach Goodreads» huge pool of readers.

Because of this, we are seeing a dramatic increase in the number of ebook boxed sets offered on - line.

Amazon's ebook store offers a number of refinements not available on B&N.

You can also offer customization, such as a chapter about the company within your ebook, and then license a specific number of copies that the company can distribute in any way they like.