Sentences with phrase «of ereader companies»

Note: This is still heavily limited by the reluctance of eReader companies to open up their devices, especially when it comes to apps that could be used to organize, manipulate, or process ebooks.

Not exact matches

Amazon is now free to pursue its strategy of selling cheap ereaders and cheap ebooks — both of which the company is widely thought to be losing money on — in order to cement a dominant position in the ebook marketplace.

While Indigo reported that indigo.ca, grew by 14.0 %, «eReading,» which «includes eReaders, eReader accessories, Kobo revenue share, and shipping revenue» dropped 40 %, providing just 2.2 % of company revenue, down from 3.8 %.

I reviewed most of their tablets and ereaders and was always impressed, especially when, almost a year ago, the company unveiled its new HD line of tablets.

At the same time that major bookseller Barnes & Noble announced a drop in its quarterly net income, the company announced a new version of its Nook Tablet eReader device.

That lead to a demonstration of «blio,» a new eReader Ray's company co-created with Baker and Taylor.

But if you read the company's mission statement they don't even have any intention of bringing Clearink to ereaders like Kindles and Kobos.

Big Strawberry, an England based company that specialize in the manufacture of cases and covers for digital devices has launched a new range of ereader and tablet cases in association with the British Library.

The company's web site — ereader.com maintains a wide selection of eReader - formatted e-books, available for purchase and download, with a handful of public domain titles available for free.

Most bookstore chains have their own ereader device and their own bookstore; but some companies like Smashwords, BookBaby, and Lulu offer «distribution» - which means they'll send your ebook out to all the online retailers and keep track of sales for you.

The price wars will be left to Amazon and B&N, and smaller eReader companies (Onyx might eventually be a good example of this) will start building higher quality devices meant for specific markets, and for people who still want a purpose - built reading device.

A lot of people have been unhappy with Amazon for removing text - to - speech from Kindle ereaders, so it's good to see the company still embracing TTS technology and working to add it to their other products.

One of Sun's company's key projects was the launch of CNP eReading in 2013.

One of the distinctive aspects of the eReader Touch Edition is that it incorporates support for Kobo's Reading Life, which the company introduced earlier this year in its apps for mobile devices.

From syncing your books across devices to purchasing from a variety of retail partners, it's a pretty compelling proposition for relatively uninformed book lovers who've not yet made the switch to ebooks and have presumably not heard of a little company called Amazon and their newfangled Kindle ereader and related apps.

Since its inception, the company has become a fierce competitor in the marketplace with its family of innovative eReaders, global ebookstore, industry - leading social platform and a wide range of free eReading apps for smartphones, tablets, netbooks and desktop computers.

«The rise of eReaders may actually be a positive for publishing companies who are embracing electronic books.

Through Barnes & Noble's NOOK (TM) eReading product offering, customers can buy and read digital books and content on the widest range of platforms, including NOOK devices, partner company products, and the most popular mobile and computing devices using free NOOK software.

«As a device - neutral platform, eBooks purchased through Kobo's eReading service can be read on various eReaders, which is a level of flexibility that benefits our authors as they seek to grow their audiences of readers,» went on Mr. Gutch, expounding the virtues the company's decision to embrace open standards such PDF and EPUB.

The company's eBook Store lets consumers browse and shop 2.4 million of today's best sellers, newspapers and magazines plus more than 1 million free classics — all merchandised with the tastes and preferences of the eReading community in mind.

With a greater - than - ever focus on digital publishing at this year's Frankfurt Book Fair, several companies took advantage of the attendance and industry focus to launch or offer sneak previews of their ereaders and tablets.

«The availability of the Kobo eReader Touch Edition in Swindon Book Company marks the first Chinese locations where consumers can see, try and buy our state - of - the - art device,» said Todd Humphrey, Executive Vice President of Business Development, Kobo.

The end result will have to be that schools will either head in the direction of ereaders or textbook companies will have to not only lower the costs of textbooks in order to compete, but will also have to find a way to stay current with downloadable supplemental chapters.

However, the introduction of Kindles has been so successful and has been one of the factors that led to an overall improvement in our reading scores that the underwriting company provided the grant again the following year in order to purchase additional ereader units and the ebooks to go with them.

Kobo offers an award - winning collection of eReaders for every user preference, and the company's Canadian customers spend most of their time (63 per cent) reading on the brand's devices.

The trial phase of Eason's new eStore feature is now finished and the company now has 25 in - store ebook and ereader sections.

On May 2, Kobo announced the newest addition to its lineup of eReaders: the Kobo Aura H2O, an updated version of the company's waterproof eReader.

PocketBook, the third largest ereader company behind Amazon and Sony, plans to unveil their new line of ebook readers and a new tablet at the 2010 IFA consumer electronics trade show in Berlin on September 3rd.

Recent investments made by 3M New Ventures include minority stakes in Perceptive Pixel Inc., a developer of advanced multi-touch solutions; Printechnologics GmbH, a printed electronics specialist providing innovative solutions for electronic circuitry on paper or foil; and txtr GmbH, an innovative eReading technology company.

The filing says simply that the company, in the meeting, «indicated it expects to make an announcement on May 24, 2011, regarding the launch of a new eReader device.»

Through Barnes & Noble's NOOK ™ eReading product offering, customers can buy and read digital books and content on the widest range of platforms, including NOOK devices, partner company products, and the most popular mobile and computing devices using free NOOK software.

Through Barnes & Noble's NOOK ™ eReading product offering, customers can buy and read eBooks on the widest range of platforms, including NOOK eBook Readers, devices from partner companies, and hundreds of the most popular mobile and computing devices using free NOOK software.

In Germany, the company has a larger selection of German eBooks (over 50,000) than any other eReading company.

• Kobo is a privately - held company that offers over 2.4 million eBooks, newspapers, and magazines — one of the largest eReading catalogues in the world.

Berlin, 19 July 2011 — txtr, a global eReading technology company, today released its latest and innovative version of its eReading app for Android, version 4.0.

it's maybe the start of a new era for the company which created e-ink based ereaders.

The size of the eBook Store is an important consideration for potential buyers of ereaders, and therefore also for companies producing these readers.

As far as tablets go Sony or another Company for reading are not my cup of tea, dedicated ereaders are still the way to go.

The Company offers readers the option of store visits, eCommerce, and digital delivery of books to devices of their choosing, including the NOOK ® branded and co-branded tablets and eReaders.

Barnes & Noble was the first company to offer digital lending for a wide selection of books through its LendMe (R) technology, available through NOOK eReading products.

We know our way around eBook readers and were one of the few eReader companies who survived the massive flood of competition.

A Wal - Mart spokeswoman confirmed the decision and said the company would keep selling «a broad assortment» of other tablets, eReaders and accessories.

NOOK GlowLight ™ provides customers a simple, easy to use, intuitive eReader on an E Ink display that replicates the experience of reading from physical paper and provides access to the Company's digital content store.

Kobo will then be soon launched in Australia at the end of the month.R REDgroup had partnered with Canadian eBook firm Kobo to provide the service and it was likely that the company's upcoming Kobo eReader would also go on sale locally when the stores launched, she said.

Store revenue over the recent holiday period was down 11 % on the previous year, however the company still made $ 317 million in earnings last year, more than enough, according to Klipper, to offset losses from the Nook ereader section of the company, which spends heavily on advertising and new technology.

This makes you curious to compare ereaders of other companies, isn't it?

Earlier in the month David Carnoy from CNET posted details of an interview with E Ink, the company that makes the screens for the Kindles, Kobo and Sony ereaders, Nook, and most other ebook readers around the world.

Kobo is an innovative company that as Shortcovers has already, in a matter of months, provided eBooks to customers from over 200 countries who have downloaded its reader application over one million times online and through devices including smartphones, desktops and popular eReaders such as the Sony Reader.

THE BOOKSELLERS» CHOICE In less than three years since the company was founded, Kobo has developed a successful turnkey solution that enables a wide variety of retailers — both large and small — to capitalize on the eReading growth occurring around the world.

While DRM's usefulness can be debated, at least you can use Adobe Digital Editions to transfer eBooks bought from one company to an eReader of another company (except Amazon, I believe), or if you're willing to do so you can strip the DRM.