Sentences with phrase «offer electronic books»

The MFN stipulated that the publishers must offer their electronic books to Apple at 70 percent of the lowest price offered on the retail market elsewhere.

Amazon has long controlled the ebook market and stiffed competitors by offering electronic books cheaper than the competition.

And now the libraries are offering electronic books that are being converted by a company called Overdrive.

The two major publishers differ in how they offer their electronic book products.

Not exact matches

And beyond economic issues, the Internet offers a huge potential for greater organizational, educational and political cohesiveness than ever before by becoming a syndication content provider (an electronic Black Sports Wire); traditional publishing (re-utilizing content creatively and cost - effectively to create books; calendars; magazines etc.); long term convergence (as BASN bandwidth increases BASN evolves into multimedia Internet / TV / Radio network with round the clock, global BASN coverage).

It was so tremendously generous of you to offer without restraint just what a lot of folks might have marketed for an electronic book in making some money for themselves, specifically considering the fact that you could have tried it if you decided.

Kindle, Kindle 3G, Kindle with Special Offers and Kindle DX are the revolutionary portable readers that wirelessly download books, magazines, newspapers, blogs and personal documents to a crisp, high - resolution electronic ink display that looks and reads like real paper.

Even though school libraries may offer a lot of electronic resources, they still need books, Curtis said.

iPad App Review: Solar System Per the Apple Web site, Solar System promises a «breakthrough electronic book about the Solar System, offering hours of interactive exploration and presenting a treasure trove of visual information.»

Market share questions for both indie work and electronic books may in fact be a major red herring that will fade away in the next few years for most of us as writers continue to enhance their creative offerings.

The PRS - 700 is sleeker than the Kindle; faster processor speeds up the device; new touch - screen interface offers better ergonomics and is easier to use; with the addition of an optional memory card (SD or Memory Stick Pro), it's capable of storing thousands of electronic books; font size is adjustable; decent battery life; displays Word and PDF files (and zooms them), shows most image files, and plays MP3 and AAC audio; built - in LED lighting isn't great but allows you to read in the dark.

(AP)-- Amazon.com Inc. is trying to get more people to buy the electronic books that are compatible with its Kindle gadget by offering free software for people to read them on a computer.

I am also receptive to ebooks, and feel that certain books actually offer much more functionality in electronic form than in hard copy: travel guides, tech books, pretty much anything where the ability to easily jump to a specific topic of interest is desirable.

(AP)-- Amazon.com Inc. is offering free books or $ 30 to Kindle customers whose copies of the George Orwell novels «1984» and «Animal Farm» were deleted from their electronic reading devices in July.

Kindle, Kindle 3G, Kindle with Special Offers and Kindle DX are the revolutionary portable readers that wirelessly download books, magazines, newspapers, blogs and personal documents to a crisp, high - resolution electronic ink display that looks and reads like real paper.

By offering both a print and electronic version of your book, you can target a larger market and reach more customers.

Then having made a clear statement of their role in the ebook world — they should place that firmly within the context of what libraries offer in printed books — they must not lose sight of print in pursuit of electronic.

Before this standardized electronic format, many libraries only offered PDF books and did not have a digital infrastructure setup to loan them out online.

Emerson College MA in Publishing and Writing: Offers courses in book, magazine, and electronic publishing; in fiction and nonfiction writing; and in literature and criticism.

NetGalley offers electronic galleys of books, both before and after their publication date, to 200,000 professional readers such as book reviewers, journalists, librarians, professors, booksellers, and bloggers.

When it comes to books, there is no telling what people will prefer, so it is best to offer both print and electronic options.

Kobo is not content to just sell books but intends on offering its Kobo Touch in August in various German electronic store retail channels.

The Amazon ecosystem is extensive with the Top Six Publishers offering many of their books in electronic format.

With the launch of the Boogie Board Rip tablet, we now offer a comprehensive family of Boogie Board eWriters that are viable electronic, paperless alternatives to note books, composition books, legal pads, sketch books, memo pads, sticky notes, scratch paper and other writing and drawing mediums.

At first glance, this captivating picture book seems to offer a straightforward view of a night when a family is forced to move away from their electronic life to a simpler time, a time when families played board games and enjoyed each other's company.

Amazon is quickly expanding the reach of its electronic books business by offering its Kindle application on PCs and mobile phones.

Despite the fact Amazon and Barnes and Noble reduced their e-readers to under the $ 200.00 price range, Kobo offered an added incentive to hustle even more electronic readers, giving a free $ 20.00 coupon for Boarders Books if you pick up a Kobo, the offer is available Online as well!

Amazon began offering digital books in Spanish and Italian for the Kindle on Thursday and selling Spanish - and Italian - language versions of the electronic book reader.

Advancements in print - on - demand technology, such as the Espresso Book Machine, are offering publishers and authors alike new opportunities to bridge the still - pronounced divide between electronic and «tangible» publishing.

As I described in a recent post, Eisler said that what made the decision to go with Amazon easy was that the web giant promised to not only get his books to market faster — both in print and electronic form — but also offered to sell them at a lower price than the traditional publisher, and apparently (although the terms of his deal weren't released) gave him a bigger share in the proceeds to boot.

Kindle, Kindle 3G, Kindle with Special Offers, Kindle 3G with Special Offers and Kindle DX are the revolutionary portable readers that wirelessly download books, magazines, newspapers, blogs and personal documents to a crisp, high - resolution electronic ink display that looks and reads like real paper.

James Crawford, the directory of engineering at Google said «Our pricing strategy is to be competitive,» relative to other electronic book offerings.

JB HiFi NOW Books is the name of the new bookstore and all of the electronic offerings have DRM encryption.

It comes with an electronic ink display that reads like real paper, with no glare, even in bright daylight and it offers the convenience of downloading books in less than 60 seconds.

Kobo came in fourth place with 66 votes and the company offers around 1.3 million electronic books for the Kobo line of e-readers and supported applications.

It does not make sense to offer our hardware in tech electronic stores, because our base of customers are book buyers.

This, combined with the fact that Amazon hasn't announced that it plans to raise the price of its electronic books, offers hope that Amazon's profits will soar even higher (according to that PW article I just referenced, Amazon's stock already climbed by 63.1 % in that period from December 31 to June 30.

While it's true that many publishing houses now offer electronic versions of their books, the author's share of the proceeds is relatively small.

Google expanded its online bookstore to Canada on Tuesday, offering hundreds of thousands of electronic books for sale and millions of others for free.

In 2016, we'll release our Reedsy Book Editor, a writing and editing tool built for authors and editors that also offers free conversion to electronic and print formats.

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Apple senior vice president Eddy Cue offered only short answers in testimony Thursday in federal court when questioned by U.S. Justice Department prosecutors trying to solidify their case that Apple, along with five of the largest book publishers, worked together to illegally set the prices of electronic books for the market.

Publishers are trying to figure out how to wrangle the electronic book market, (as music companies did a decade ago), librarians are trying to figure out how their services can be a choice in the offerings, salespeople are trying to market all sorts of solutions to librarians, and it will be interesting to see how it all unfolds.

The companies have a standard sales pitch: The electronic book offers convenience and portability (you can carry multiple books with you at no extra burden), utility (you can search and annotate cumbersome reference materials) and availability (digital books will be available for immediate download).

A conversation between Flint and Baen Books publisher Jim Baen led to an experiment: offering a few titles in electronic format for free.

«DAISY offers versatility by providing navigation that goes well beyond the plain text navigation used in the first electronic books for the blind,» says the National Federation of the Blind, the nation's largest advocacy group for vision - impaired people.

«Amazon.com and Barnes & Noble are working on apps for buying and reading electronic books, even though both companies sell their own e-reading devices and Apple will offer its own iBooks app.

Other advantages DAISY books offer include word search, spell check, and the ability to place electronic bookmarks on key passages and navigate back to them on future readings.

But the iPad would make a fine reader for electronic books, offering features such as enhanced color and video, Cue thought.

Many businesses — even some older, traditional printers — now offer digital (electronic) book printing, called «print on demand» which allows as little as a single book to be printed to order.