Sentences with phrase «number of ebooks over»

There's no monthly service plan for a Kindle so I always figured Amazon would require consumers to purchase a minimum number of ebooks over a 1 - or 2 - year period instead.

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A number of ebooks have been purchased over textbooks, Mannix said, and many student assignments and tests have been administered through Chromebooks instead of on paper.

From their website: «Over the years, Impelsys has developed successful ebook strategies for a number of leading publishers worldwide.

3M has just signed on a number of eBook publishing companies that expand its vast repertoire of eBooks to over 200,000.

On a number of different email lists over the last four or five months there have been discussions on ebook pricing.

While the number that believe ebooks are held to a lower standard than print actually increased over 2014 (12.8 percent versus 9.8 percent), that might be because the bar is rising, and most respondents believe that the quality of digital publishing continues to improve, with 52.5 percent rating most eBooks as either good or excellent compared to 46.5 inebooks are held to a lower standard than print actually increased over 2014 (12.8 percent versus 9.8 percent), that might be because the bar is rising, and most respondents believe that the quality of digital publishing continues to improve, with 52.5 percent rating most eBooks as either good or excellent compared to 46.5 ineBooks as either good or excellent compared to 46.5 in 2014.

A Pew Research Center Poll in December 2012, for example, declared that 23 % of Americans aged 16 and over read an ebook in 2012, up 7 % over the year before, but those are not the triple digit numbers we saw in 2009 - 10.

According to Reuters, one - fifth of American adults read an eBook last year, with the number surely to keep rising over the next few years.

By the end of 2012, «Loose Ends» had sold over 82,000 copies and, as of the writing of this bio, was the number one bestselling book in Amazon's ranking of Ghost Stories in the Book / Literature & Fiction / Genre Fiction / Horror / Ghosts section and the number two in the same area in the Kindle eBooks section.

Of course, the number of readers who have successfully resisted eBooks is diminishes all the time, and those of us who have gone over to the Dark Side (and switched our allegiance from «real» books to eBooks) are rarely tempted to look bacOf course, the number of readers who have successfully resisted eBooks is diminishes all the time, and those of us who have gone over to the Dark Side (and switched our allegiance from «real» books to eBooks) are rarely tempted to look bacof readers who have successfully resisted eBooks is diminishes all the time, and those of us who have gone over to the Dark Side (and switched our allegiance from «real» books to eBooks) are rarely tempted to look bacof us who have gone over to the Dark Side (and switched our allegiance from «real» books to eBooks) are rarely tempted to look back.

By insisting on blindly continuing to spend copious amounts of money on print runs, only to have them end up as pulp after they have been remaindered by the dwindling number of book shops through low sales, over the far cheaper and fastest growing area within literature today — the eBook, does you no favours whatsoever.

While there was some anger from the indie publishing community at the thought that self - published authors would lose the control over their books that makes them independent in the first place, the number of authors who signed up caused the number of borrowable ebooks to skyrocket.

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.

An infographic included in Hazard Owen's article illustrates how the trend is shifting over last year's numbers, as well as attributes the popularity of series like The Hunger Games and now potentially the release of the Harry Potter ebooks as tools that can help draw more teen readers into ebook use.

Let's sour the numbers a little by saying that even if the ebooks are purchased as cheaply as possible, at least 10 % overall will not read them over the course of their device's lifetime.

Over the coming months we are likely to see a number of iPhone apps that will allow you to read those free, public domain eBooks from Project Gutenberg, and Stanza will certainly continue to be one of the top ones.

If you were to buy 3 eBooks each month over four years of your Kindle's lifetime, you could reduce the C02 produced by the same number of regular books by 906 kilograms4.

In 2009, eBooks made for only $ 113,000,000 of first quarter sales in the (over) $ 24,000,000,000 publishing market.5 Today, they are among the most popular products purchased online — which keeps that line of numbers growing continually.

In a Kindle Direct Publishing newsletter, author Hal Elrod, who has sold over 100,000 copies of his self - published ebook, said, «I can confidently say that the number one key to driving book sales has been securing interviews on other people's podcasts!»

The number of new books published (not including those without an ISBN or ebooks) has not markedly risen over the past ten years.

Although OverDrive has been the ebook lending provider for over 15,000 public libraries for quite some time, the number of school libraries who rely on OverDrive for digital material is only in the hundreds.

There are a copious number of online self - publishing companies that promise aspiring authors the opportunity to distribute their ebook all over the world.

The number who had listened to an audiobook (26 %) was up slightly over 2016, while the number of people who had read an ebook (48 %) has been down slightly, year over year.

Apple wanted to get a foothold in the ebook market with a limited number of deployed iPads costing over twice as much as Kindles.

As for there not being a wide selection of children's lit for ebooks he needs to quit looking at over priced traditional publishers and toward the enormous number of self - publishing authors who are bypassing the gatekeepers and publishing youth orientated literate by the bit loads every month now.

The company is becoming more focused on mobile devices since in the last quarter the number of users checking out audiobooks and ebooks has increased by over 33 %.

«Globally, according to one study, the number of countries providing a VAT exemption or reduced rate to eBooks rose significantly, around 50 %, over just three years.

Some of the popularity of ebook lending libraries that OverDrive has noted for the calendar year 2011 through September 30th include almost triple the number of ebook check - outs over all of 2010, more than two million new users signed up for this year, and a rise in smartphone reading to account for 21 % of all ebook checkouts.

OverDrive, the powerhouse that makes ebook and audio download books possible to over 15,000 public and school libraries, released some surprising numbers on the use of ebook lending enabled libraries.

But the site that so many readers — and even self - published authors — are not all that familiar with is actually accumulating impressive numbers, with over 80,000 authors and publishers launching more than 230,000 ebooks, which translates into revenue of more than $ 20 million last year, a five million dollar increase over the year before.

In the case of Scholastic «s publication of Suzanne Collins» wildly successful Hunger Games trilogy, print books should have accounted for a higher percentage of sales, given the prevalence of print over digital in that demographic; at the same time, ebook sales of E.L. James» 50 Shades of Grey trilogy and the anonymity of digital purchases — coupled with the self - publishing numbers from the first go - round — made ebooks seem to be the clear frontrunner.

2 min readRecently, Bowker issued a report on the state of self - publishing, analyzing ISBN data year over year to identify changes in the number of print and eBooks published by the top self - publishing platforms.

She added that the impressive sales numbers for the first six books of The Godling Chronicles series in both audiobook and ebook formats, and their sustained sales over the past four years, convinced Audible that even a six - figure advance was not much of a risk.

Over the past weeks I've been reading a number of non-fiction eBooks — don't ask me, why, it just happened for some reason.

After a number of quiet experiments over the years bundling print books and ebooks together, Barnes & Noble has launched an extensive holiday bundling promotion under the banner «Sync Up,» letting in - store customers add an ebook version of eligible titles for $ 4.99 when purchasing the print editions.

Stanza is one of the few eBook apps to support a large number of formats, giving it an advantage over the competition.

After all, ebooks have a number of advantages over print books.

In it, we went over some of the reactions to the American Association of Publishers» (AAP) recent numbers (based on the input of some 1,200 publishers), indicating that, as Michael Cader wrote at Publishers Lunch, «ebook sales by established trade publishers are in decline.»

If you've been working in your field of expertise for any length of time, you've probably collected a number of tips or pieces of advice over the years that can easily be combined into an ebook.

Over that time I've had to study intensively in areas like blogging, internet marketing, ebook creation, electronic workflows and a number of other fields.

In the US market, over a third of all ebook purchases lack trackable ISBNs — the International Standard Book Numbers sold to US publishers by Bowker.

Oyster, which launched in 2013 and is available for iOS and Android (and Kindle Fire), is $ 9.95 a month and includes access to over 500,000 ebooks, while Scribd is available on a number of platforms (including iOS and Android and Kindle Fire) and includes access to over 400,000 ebooks for $ 8.99 a month.

I've given away over 150,000 free copies of free eBooks I have written and I can count the number of times people have sent me a thank you on both hands.

Recently, Bowker issued a report on the state of self - publishing, analyzing ISBN data year over year to identify changes in the number of print and eBooks published by the top self - publishing platforms.

As the data shows, the vast majority of indie authors are choosing not to spend money on ISBNs for their ebooks, and that number is growing year over year.

It's true that a majority of respondents in the Winter 2010 Kindle Nation Citizen Survey is ready to take a stand against anticipated increases in Kindle Store ebook prices above the $ 9.99 figure that Amazon has associated with bestsellers and new releases since the Kindle's launch over two years ago, but inside the numbers are some indications of flexibility:

The increase in the number of eBook creation tools over the last 3 years has led to many claims that eBook development is as easy (or should be as easy) as pressing a button.

I have test data for a lot of different cases (1 ebook per giveaway only, ebook price over $ 2.99, ebook won, downloaded and opened, etc.), but the result is the same: Price, number of ebooks in the giveaway, winner action after giveaway, etc. does NOT matter: Kindle ebooks don't count.

Other highlights from the report include a significant increase in the number of publishers producing digital audiobooks, which rose by 11 % over 2015, and a 20 % jump in the number of firms utilizing the agency pricing model for their ebooks.

Are you feeling overwhelmed with the number of free books over the last couple of days due to Read an eBook week?