Sentences with phrase «of ebook platforms»

Opportunity with smaller libraries B&T courted smaller libraries because the company noticed many of them were relying on consortial arrangements to afford startup costs of ebook platforms but that, once in the consortium, they sometimes felt they were not getting equal access to content.

(Library Journal will be presenting a series of articles that takes an indepth look at some of the ebook platforms that are now in the marketplace.

To get the maximum exposure for your book, you need it to be available in perfect form (or as close as you can get to it) in all of the eBook platforms including the Kindle, the Nook, the Sony eBook reader and the iPad.

Not very revolutionary, given the growing numbers of ebook platforms that let authors upload content and create a book — for free, no less — in the same... [Read more...]

«As you may be aware, there has been a significant amount of negative media attention in the UK regarding offensive material that became available across a number of eBook platforms.

Have you used one of these eBook platforms?

There are a lot of eBook platforms out there — how many do you know?

It's exciting to see how publishers are taking advantage of the eBook platform, although I'm not sure that «Writer's Cut» eBooks will work with every genre.

This form of subtle consumer education was never instated during the rise of the eBook platform and so the diminished value perceived by readers and authors was commonplace from the start.

Six years ago today the Canadian bookseller Indigo changed the name of its eBook platform, Shortcovers, and launched Kobo on to the international scene.

Not exact matches

Kobo CEO Michael Tamblyn says indie authors drive 20 % of the platform's ebook sales.

As the graphic below shows, the iPad is the overwhelming platform of choice for ebooks of fixed layout, which is a fancy word for those that don't include any multimedia or other «enhanced» features:

However, Rainforest QA has now released their mobile app testing platform («Quality Assurance as a Service»), along with an ebook about scaling mobile testing itself, using their crop of over 50,000 crowdsourced testers to zero in on specific issues (and they get into this in detail in a recent eBebook about scaling mobile testing itself, using their crop of over 50,000 crowdsourced testers to zero in on specific issues (and they get into this in detail in a recent eBookeBook).

However, in the case of a person like me without a large blog readership, would it make sense for me to invest a ton of time creating an eBook if I don't have a platform standing behind me from which to market the product?

To further enhance the chances of traders profiting on this platform, the broker has provided various educational materials on trading in binary options, such as videos and eBooks, for their customers.

You can write eBooks on diverse topics, and earn passive income from selling them to millions of people on the Amazon kindle platform.

I know that many of you have already purchased my newest eBook from Amazon, but if you don't have Kindle (or the Kindle app for a different device), I am happy to announce that The Re-Justification of God is now available on the following platforms:

Bonuses include: Platform Video Jumpstart Program (six sessions), How to Write a Winning Book Proposal (two e-books and two audio sessions), Why NOW is the Best Time Ever to Be an Author (hour - long video), Digital Versions of Platform (audio and eBook), and more!

I am not using videos as a platform to SELL a $ 97 eBook, I promote home workouts and discourage the purchase of * anything *.

If you're a dating expert looking to share your expertise, the platform offers free, user - friendly tools to upload your ebook within minutes and receive 60 - 80 % of your list price.

One of the most straightforward approaches to present learning content on a mobile platform is through eBooks.

You may also wish to repurpose some of your short reports into eBooks (sold on their on website) or books for the Kindle platform.

Libraries use different systems for ebook lending, many of which don't communicate effectively with one another — so if a publisher chooses one platform over another, many libraries will have to do without their titles in electronic form.

Kindle is the eBook platform of choice for any serious writer.

Dave Bricker — award - winning author, book coach, designer, and creator of the PubML ™ eBook platform — will offer two September workshops in Miami, Florida.

Formerly the BlackBerry app only worked with audiobooks and now that it supports library ebooks as well, that makes four different mobile platforms you can get free ebooks from libraries with — Android, iPad / iPhone, Windows Mobile, BlackBerry — plus desktop computers of course.

Another big change has been finding a partner for my cover design business, Dane Low of eBook Launch, who has been helping out with the cover design so I can focus on improving my platforms and writing my own fiction.

The new generation of publishing houses focus on getting independent authors onto various ebook distribution platforms such as Kindle, iBooks, and Nook.

Apple instead let publishers set their own prices for ebooks on the iPad — as long as those prices were the lowest offered on any platform — and then took a 30 % cut of revenue.

eBook Lending Platforms — p. 22 by John Novak — For the purposes of this article, the definition of an eBook lending platform is one that contains eBooks from multiple publishers that patrons may browse and checkout.

asks Mark Coker, the founder and CEO of Smashwords — one of the few ebook self - publishing platforms that didn't clean house in October.

Here is a eBook account set up worksheet that will allow you to pull all of the information you need into one place before you start and that way you can move easily through the set up process on each platform.

Commercial Publisher eBook Platforms — p. 30 by Cris Ferguson — For the purposes of this analysis, a commercial eBook publisher is defined as a publisher whose eBook platform contains primarily its own content.

Recently Mark Coker, founder and CEO of the ebook distribution platform Smashwords, posted an article on the Smashwords blog about the state of ebook marketing.

I guess for my purposes, there are a couple of big considerations: (1) I want to choose an approach which, when it all sorts out, becomes the «standard» approach for commercial nonfiction eBooks; and (2) «useability» or «readability» of the end result on the various eReader platforms.

Other recent developments in the POD / self - publishing space include Amazon's merger of Booksurge and CreateSpace; Lulu's adding 200,000 eBooks from traditional publishers to their platform; and Andrew Sullivan is self - publishing a book via Blurb.

If you want your book formatting to look great across a wide variety of reading platforms, you need high quality eBook formatting.

eBook Platforms: Lessons Learned from Managing Multiple Providers — p. 12 by Trey Shelton, Tara Cataldo, and Amy Buhler — Gives an overview of multiple eBook platforms from the perspective of a large academicPlatforms: Lessons Learned from Managing Multiple Providers — p. 12 by Trey Shelton, Tara Cataldo, and Amy Buhler — Gives an overview of multiple eBook platforms from the perspective of a large academicplatforms from the perspective of a large academic library.

Smashwords, although a valuable resource for indie authors and publishers to get their ebooks formatted and distributed in a variety of formats for different eReader platforms, is not yet the destination for the everyday e-book reader / buyer.

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Supermarket chain Tesco has been one of the breakouts in the UK eBook arena the last few years with their Blinkbox Books platform.

This as - of - yet untapped level on consumer — the person who wishes he read more books or was more up - to - date on current events, but simply doesn't have enough time to devote to this type of reading — is becoming a bigger focus among digital publishing platforms; last week, Rooster announced the March 11th launch of its «snippet» reading subscription that lets users consume serialized books at a fraction of the cost of full - size ebook subscriptions, again, optimized for smartphone reading.

«Designed using the strengths of the EBL and ebrary platforms, ProQuest Ebook Central will feature a user - centered design that will improve ebook research and management experiences from end toEbook Central will feature a user - centered design that will improve ebook research and management experiences from end toebook research and management experiences from end to end.

Dominique Raccah of Sourcebooks presents the second place award to educational ebook platform Qlovi in the Startup Challenge.

One of the principle owners of the Tolino Alliance is Deutsche Telekom and they have just filed paperwork with the Bundeskartellamt, the German Federal Cartel Office, to sell its stake in the Tolino ebook platform to Rakuten Kobo.

Today the Axis 360 platform now allows library patrons to have access to all library materials from the online catalog — whether physical or digital — and creates a convenient experience for borrowing and enjoying ebooks and digital audiobooks in the patron's favorite reading apps and on their device of choice.

Ebook distribution platform Smashwords, one of the top retailers for self - published and digitally published works, unveiled a new program today that will make it even easier and more lucrative for libraries to put indie authors» titles in the devices of digital reading patrons.

OverDrive, one of the nation's leading ebook lending platforms that supplies the ebook titles to school and public libraries that offer digital lending services, will once again be bringing its tractor - trailer bookmobile on the road, this time attending this weekend's National Book Festival in Washington,... [Read more...]

Libraries often have several eBook platforms in order to provide a range of titles.

As library ebook lending for both academic and public institutions continues to make steady progress, libraries are finally able to «shop» the competition to provide the best user experience for their patrons, the largest catalogs of bestselling titles, and investigate the available features of different platforms.