Not exact matches
Its features look similar to those of «open» publishers, like Create
Space, Kindle, Smashwords, and
others (including Nook
ebooks).
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.
But to Navoth, an
ebook doesn't truly inhabit the digital media
space the way
other forms of entertainment do.
Two years after «standing up» to Amazon by handing Apple instant market share in the
ebook space, and jumping through hoops to supply every
other harebrained
ebook startup with shoddily formatted content, with nary a thought given to device interoperability nor optimal user experiences, and in the wake of the # 2 domestic book retailer finally going bankrupt, libraries have seemingly become the one kid on the playground publishers think they can bully into submission.
For some, it meant hashtags and author chats in an
ebook, while for
others it was pushing their brands into
spaces like Pinterest; in almost every instance, though, there were few answers for what value would be be added to the reading experiences, and even less attention given to the differences amongst various reading communities.
Ebooks in the
other hand, do not have such dependency and in comparison, the closest form of items that would affect readability in this case are formatting, font size and probably
spacing.
With 8 GB of storage
space, your Kobo Aura H2O can carry twice as many
eBooks as
other eReaders.
There are a few things about the Sony PRS - 650 that could use improving, mainly the same things that are listed on the PRS - 350 review: the lack of styling options, such as changing line -
spacing, margins, font type, etc, all of which requires adding fonts and editing the CSS file of an
ebook to change styling; the fact that landscape mode breaks pages into two sections for
ebooks, showing duplicate sentences; and
other minor annoyances like having to go through multiple menu selections for certain features and settings.
Many indie authors eschew pbooks over
ebooks because of costs and royalties and
other things (I can release an
ebook more efficiently than a pbook), but even Amazon does paper (Create
Space).
Other notable
ebook titles include The Hundred Year Old Man Who Jumped Out the Window, The Luminaries, The Etymologicon, Fractured, Death comes to Pemberley, The Detective's Daughter, World War Z, Cold in July, The Moaning of Life, the Tom Gates series, 2001: A
Space Odyssey, and the For Dummies series.
We plan to feature some of the most innovative and game - changing apps,
ebooks and
other e-products in this
space at the event.
Avid readers with a large library can quickly fill up the device
space on smartphones and tablets, leaving little room for
other apps and, of course, more
eBooks.
While competitors including Qualcomm, NVIDIA, Texas Instruments, and Samsung have been duking it out for dominance in the smartphone and tablet
space, Freescale is one of the top makers of chips for
eBook Readers, in - vehicle entertainment systems, and
other devices that you see everywhere, but not might hear as much about..
Bookstores can't survive when Amazon can coerce its author and publisher suppliers to offer Amazon better prices, or worse, as we see in the indie
ebook space with KDP Select, put a gun to the head of authors and force them to deny
other retailers the ability to sell their books.
For the moment at least, it must be a very important part of its
ebook business strategy as it can not allow
other firms to take over this
space, and I would think its only possible course of action is to tough it out and suck up any losses.