Sentences with phrase «of opening ebooks»

It is possible to see the foundations of the modern eBook from such activity, as the necessity for reflowable text when reading on a Portable Digital Assistant (PDA) led to the formation of the Open eBook Publication Structure (a precursor to the EPUB format) in 1999, and several portable devices such as the Game Boy Advance, PalmPilot and SoftBook had facilities for modems, allowing readers to receive books without using a computer, often seen as one of the core selling points of the original Kindle.

Wednesday, February 24th saw the launch of the Open eBooks program.

Several scholars from the TEI were closely involved in the early development of Open eBook [1].

The Digital Public Library of America and other sites and apps have millions of open ebooks, which are never chalked up as a sale.

Not exact matches

3 lucky readers will win a title of their choosing from the Bill Murdoch Mystery Series, in ebook — entries open worldwide.

«I recommend this eBook to anyone looking to repair and maintain their health and for those wanting to embrace the value of traditional food sources «Upon opening «The Gelatin Secret,» I was excited to get my hands on some new recipes and a few new ideas of how gelatin might be useful.

Big Boost is committed to helping authors as well as executives, businesses, nonprofits, retailers, conference organizers and others unleash the unrealized power of eBooks to engage readers through multimedia channels that open up an amazing range of branding, cross marketing, fund raising and sales opportunities.

They do, however, reflect quite a few of the «what not to do's «and «what I should've done's «that my new photography ebook has opened my eyes to.

Movie: A Journal of Film Criticism is initiating a series of open access ebooks by republishing monographs which originally appeared in the series Close - Up (Wallflower Press, 2006 - 09).

In terms of the skills needed to use tablet devices such as iPads, research has shown that the majority of pre-schoolers can open apps on their own, finger trace on the screen, swipe to turn eBook pages and use story making apps independently.

The digitization and the increase of employees open a way for eLearning, and so the eBook «Learning Management Systems to take Airline Training Programs to the Next Level», by G - Cube covers a large spectrum of topics, from training on compliance to global safety measures, helping ensure that competent knowledge and crucial experience is gained.

This eBook by Paysafe will open the door to the evolving world of eLearning finances and payments for you, providing you all you need to know for the best possible user experience, bringing growth for your organization.

Initially conceived in September 2007, the open ebook standard ePub uses a combination of HTML, CSS, and XML wrapped up as a Zip file.

The nomination period for the 2016 eFestival of Words Best of the Independent eBook Awards will open on February 1st.

The FBReader software is also being ported to some of the dedicated ebook readers (the iRex Iliad being the first), supports a lot of ebook formats (including, soon, the open.

epub file format)-- a new open standard for production and distribution of ebooks, in particular re-flowable ebooks that can automatically reformat to produce readable output on different screen sizes.

While Digital Editions is Adobe's proprietary technology, it's one of the first commercial products to announce full support for the digital publishing industry's own open ebook format, epub.

Now, with the digital revolution and the spread of ebooks, anyone can claim the title of «author» — and the floodgates have certainly opened with a tsunami of new ebooks of varying quality.

If you tried opening a MOB file with an eBook reader, you'd either get errors or be shown a bunch of incoherent text.

Even Harry Potter's author, J.K. Rowling, who has long stood firm of «no Harry Potter eBooks», has this very week announced the opening of her very own internet site, complete with all seven Harry Potter books and a new reference book is scheduled, which she's been working on for some time now.

Its features look similar to those of «open» publishers, like Create Space, Kindle, Smashwords, and others (including Nook ebooks).

Reports as early as March suggested the Department of Justice had opened an investigation into an alleged 2010 deal between Apple and the five publishers — Hachette SA, HarperCollins, Macmillan, Penguin and Simon & Schuster — that forced Amazon to raise ebook prices.

Brian's interview was a perfect example of how ebooks open up new voices — and allows the writer to create a manuscript of whatever length they think it should be.

The trends in other industries will affect consumer expectations in publishing — and in small ways, it already has, with a movement geared to opening copyrighted works to the public, and the US Department of Justice suing all of the «big six» and Apple for price fixing (iBookstore prices differ widely from Amazon's), which will likely give Amazon the upper hand in setting ebook prices in the long run.

«Publishers can now take advantage of OverDrive's EPUB3 support to create enhanced eBooks using open standards that display children's picture books as the author and publisher intended, as well as to add interactive elements within the page to further engage the reader,» said Alexis Petric - Black, OverDrive's Director of Publisher Services.

In a cryptically worded graphic on their website, a lot of unanswered questions were alluded to, particularly that the ebooks parents have already purchased for their young readers as part of the platform «may soon no longer be available,» and that consumers «may be able to continue using your eBooks by making sure to open them on a bookshelf at least once by October 15.&ebooks parents have already purchased for their young readers as part of the platform «may soon no longer be available,» and that consumers «may be able to continue using your eBooks by making sure to open them on a bookshelf at least once by October 15.&eBooks by making sure to open them on a bookshelf at least once by October 15.»

«We are proud to partner with the NYPL to open up new horizons for New Yorkers with print disabilities by offering them access to Bookshare's extensive collection of accessible ebooks free of charge, for use on a wide variety of devices including mobile phones and tablets,» says Brad Turner, Vice President of Global Literacy at Benetech.

There are links to erotic fiction offered to little kids from the landing page of OverDrive ebooks — the links open, are fully readable and even have audio.

While the open letter writing, name calling, and petition signing in the Amazon - Hachette battle continues to rage on, it's important to remember that the end result of Hachette getting its way will be that Amazon will not be allowed to discount ebooks, and by law Apple will.

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For example, Penguin opened up with us at first, with just their backlist eBook titles, and after they were happy with our delivery of data, metrics and statistics, they felt more comfortable and opened up all of their titles.»

EPUB became an official standard of the IDPF in September 2007, superseding the older Open eBook standard.

Unlike other platforms that make readers choose between «bookshelves» only available to certain products and companies, Ownshelf opens up eBook sharing to everyone, and is one of the first projects to do so.

Along with the opening today of its online ebook store, Whitcoulls has launched the Kobo dedicated eReader, giving Kiwis their first retail experience of an e-Ink ebook reader.

The EPUB format is an open source standard that defines how the content and metadata of an eBook should be packaged and how eReading devices and software should render the format to the reader.

Self - publishing ebooks is opening up a lot of doors for many an aspiring author, trying to make a name in the genre of their choice.

Since the launch of eSentral, several independent stores have opened up aiming for a smaller submarket and offering ebooks both in local languages and English.

The Nook, however, opens to the first page of the eBook itself, that is the cover, because it currently does not recognize the reference type «start» in the section of the.

French publishers are strongly supportive of the EPUB format, as one of the key elements of the open and interoperable ebook ecosystem they promote.

Though still in beta, they are open for business and can distribute your eBook to Apple, Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Kobo, and hundreds of others.

Since she uses a number of ebook apps, this gave us an opportunity to answer the (not - so) age - old question: when you open the new box, are the ebooks still alive and meowing?

This can become an issue when you attempt to open a different file of a previous version of your ebook with the same name.

But since we usually post our books eight times (in paperback, an ebook in pdf, and six other «open» publishers within a few days of each other), we use two of our ISBNs that we bought (at embarrassing overpriced rates from Bowker), one for bound versions, one for digital versions.

Benetech «Benetech has always been a supporter of open source and eBook accessibility.

You can download software to your computer that's capable of reading ebook files, much the same way you download Adobe Acrobat Reader to open PDFs on your computer.

Choosing the perfect size for ebook images is still an open question given the growing range of screen sizes, but shrinking to 1000px should ensure that you don't trigger a (historical) bug that crashed a popular mobile reading system by giving it a cover too large in size.

I'm also the type of person who pages back on ebooks so I start «properly» at the cover and not at the content page where Kindle usually opens files.

The writing was on the wall as recently as 2 a.m. this morning, and an open letter from Macmillan CEO John Sargent has confirmed everything we suspected: Macmillan books were pulled from Amazon store as part of a strong - arm tactic in the coming eBook price war.

Most of the times, I don't buy ebooks that are reference bks, b / c sections I use often, the bk already opens up to that page.

In the viewer window that opens, you can navigate through your ebook, change the size of the fonts, and see any formatting problems.