Sentences with phrase «of ebooks in general»

I suspect that if you are going to try the ebook market as a way to sell your work and Amazon make it easy (and they do) then you will push their system to your readers helping to spread the word of Kindle rather than the word of ebooks in general.

The Defendants» purpose in adopting the agency model was to end competitive pricing for ebooks, and to slow the growth of ebooks in general, and the growth of Amazon's dominant market share in particular.

As long as Amazon doesn't reveal their numbers it is next to impossible to determine the market size of eBooks in general.

One of the largest concerns in Spain right now is the price of ebooks in general.

What we should be wanting is more widespread adoption of ebooks in general and getting away from the agency model and artificially high prices can do that.

Not exact matches

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NEW YORK, NY — Attorney General Eric T. Schneiderman announced today that the $ 400 million for consumers in the settlement of the eBooks litigation with Apple Inc. will be distributed this week.

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Many will not be able to afford better than secondhand prices for books in general, which counts them out of buying most if not all ebooks, and never mind the expense of a device to actually read them on.

The funds were appropriated by the General Assembly in response to a report by the Department of Consumer Protection which recommended, in light of the high cost libraries pay for eBooks, that the state develop its own eBook Platform.

Contrary to the general perception, ebooks are not all the rage in every part of the world.

The analysis comes with a few caveats: (1) the Kindle is only one eBook provider and is not representative of digital reading; (2) it is unknown to what degree this data is representative of reading on the Kindle in general; (3) the data does not currently include 90 % of the data; and (4) without a finer breakdown of the users» demographics, the data can only tell us so much about what the readers are attempting to do through highlighting.

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However, it does not have the potential reach of a product by Apple or Microsoft in terms of getting ebook production into the hands of the general public.

I'll get right to it, in my opinion you and your company are on the «wrong side of history» as it pertains both to the pricing of ebooks, and operating a publishing business within the context of our digital culture in general.

Big, big thanks go out not only to the backers in general, but specifically to all backers who helped test the ebook files before their general release, to Dara who did all of the layout for the PDF, and of course to Kiri Moth for providing me such amazing cover art!

But in general, I believe the quality of ebooks is much lower than that of printed books; from both traditional and self publishers.

In our eBook we will have paragraphs for general text, we might have headlines, we certainly will have chapter headings, and each of these will require a different look.

While publishers in general are cautiously navigating the choppy waters of the digital shift, most are riding the strong wave of ebook sales that's putting as much profit in their coffers as Amazon's, while balancing a constricting (but by no means expiring) market for print books, along with a rats nest of pre-digital contracts, rights, and royalty scenarios.

«Tablets will likely continue to take over, as they can access a wider variety of content, from ebooks to streaming video, to music, to audiobooks, to the Internet in general,» the report notes.

Mike DiPiano, managing general partner of NewSpring, who now joins Open Road's board of directors, said, «There is huge disruption in the publishing industry as business models are rapidly evolving and ebooks are becoming a greater share of overall trade book sales.

Ebooks in general and Amazon in particular gave people with limited means and limited mobility access to the community of letters in numbers that were unthinkable before.

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Juergen Boos, the director of the five - day annual fair, has also suggested that a general attachment in Europe to the physical presence of the printed book and its value as a cultural object is holding the ebook back.

This gave me a chance to hear his views about the role of eBooks in the long sweep of history that he is considering these days in his critique of Internet culture and the corporatization of life in general.

He comments that a big problem to be solved in the ebook business in general is that if you read ebooks a lot, you don't have one set of shelves, you have a set of shelves for every app, and no easy way to blend them.

Since 2013, the publishing industry has seen a marked drop in the growth of ebook sales in general.

The first thing to understand about ebook spam, pirated content, and PLR content (PLR books are titles that were written by one author with the intention of selling that title to other would - be authors who wish to put their names on it and sell it as their own original work, resulting in multiple copies of the same worthless book flooding the catalog) is that the various retailers and distributors who make ebooks available to the general public are all doing their utmost to protect the integrity of their catalogs.

According to the message from Amazon, «The credit results from legal settlements reached with publishers Hachette, HarperCollins, Simon & Schuster, Macmillan, and Penguin in antitrust lawsuits filed by State Attorneys General and Class Plaintiffs about the price of eBooks.

While the general public has become increasingly aware of ebooks and all the benefits that the digital books can have for them, digital publishing technologies too has come to the forefront in recent times.

The study also seems to confirm a general decline in the use of ebooks by library patrons: «Over the past 12 months, 96 % of survey respondents read at least one print book, while 44 % read at least one ebook.»

He asserted that eBooks, and ePublishing of pre-packaged materials in general, should be an important enough use case to influence some of the relevant HTML5 standards, and the current landscape of over 50 specs under development makes it non-trivial to identify eBook - reader uses cases.

These days lots of people own eBook readers, and anyone who enjoys reading in general should at least consider buying one of these devices.

In order to make a broader - scale transition to academic ebooks, the hurdles of our current attitudes about textbooks in general will have to be overcomIn order to make a broader - scale transition to academic ebooks, the hurdles of our current attitudes about textbooks in general will have to be overcomin general will have to be overcome.

Well, suffice it to say that individuals and groups associated with the defendants are sounding off through the comment process, and they are making very strong claims to the general effect that DOJ's efforts to protect consumers against ebook price - fixing are misguided, because the DOJ should instead be protecting the interests and the distribution infrastructure of the same publishers who colluded with Apple to raise ebook prices by 30 to 100 percent back in 2010.

Which makes me concerned about the general experience of reading other ebooks — who else's ebooks are losing formatting in this app?

Making a general, sweeping statement like that of Grodin creates the illusion that all eBooks are too expensive, when in fact it truly relates only to a portion of the market that is getting smaller by the day — that of major publishing houses.

Hachette Livre said it «remains confident that it did not violate the antitrust laws, and has made no admission of liability,» but added that the «costs, length, and distractions of the proceedings before the European Commission would be too disruptive to its business and to the development of ebook markets in general».

«In time for «Back to School,» and in response to global demand for eBooks, we're enriching our catalog with even more popular and diverse content,» said Erica Lazzaro, general counsel and head of publisher relations at OverDrivIn time for «Back to School,» and in response to global demand for eBooks, we're enriching our catalog with even more popular and diverse content,» said Erica Lazzaro, general counsel and head of publisher relations at OverDrivin response to global demand for eBooks, we're enriching our catalog with even more popular and diverse content,» said Erica Lazzaro, general counsel and head of publisher relations at OverDrive.

As part of the settlement terms in several states» Attorneys General lawsuits against some of the Big Six publishers over alleged ebook price fixing, Amazon customers received some welcome news today: they would be receiving account credits on eligible purchases.

Marcos Ruão, General Director of Fnac Spain, says: «We look forward to working closely with Kobo to further grow the eBook industry in Spain.

Many of these people are even stating that the end times for ebooks in general is on the horizon due to this terrible change of events.

The majority of Jones» write - up is not about self - publishers, it's about ebook economics in general and behavior in «mature markets» that may not have been anticipated by many who engaged in a giddy exuberance in the earlier stages of digital publishing.

There's something odd about the Kindle range - or ebook readers in general - as they don't seem to be following the trend of «normal» tech.

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I then figured that if I could convert all the ebooks in to one general format I wouldn't require a whole lot of software to babysit.

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This ability to display / render only subsets of a content document is of general interest in ebooks, not only to indexes.

And I would like as a Board member to express more specifically general views of e-distributors, application providers and eBooks retailers, among which several are small businesses in a highly competitive environment.

The eBook apps are all PDF - based rather than reflowable, which is part of a bigger problem for Asian language eBooks in general.