Apps provide somewhat more
power than ebooks, but marketing them is an added challenge.
Not exact matches
4 GB (2,000
eBooks), lighter
than previous models, sharper text, new fonts, same 8 week battery life,
power button moved to side instead of back, removed page change buttons from bezel.
That's the
power in cheap or free, short
ebooks that took you less
than a week to write.
In the weeks that I've been putting together my
ebook bestsellers breakdown, which examines the titles that are doing better in digital formats
than in print and investigates how titles hit the bestseller list, one common key to success pops up over and over again: The
power of a sale.
Library readers borrowed more
than 165 million
eBooks, audiobooks and streaming video from their library's OverDrive -
powered collection, an increase of 20 percent over 2014.
Powered by the XBurst CPU, the company's JZ47xx series application processors are widely deployed in embedded devices and consumer electronic products including PMPs, educational electronic devices,
eBooks, biometrics and more, with more
than 30 million units shipped to - date.
The problem is — there is no scarcity, readers have all the
power,
ebooks cost less to make and sell
than paper books and everyone knows it, there is infinite competition, readers aren't stupid.
Very low -
power E Ink displays were thought about, Mrsic - Flogel told us, but the refresh rate still isn't sufficient for a computer that would be much more interactive
than an
ebook reader like the Kindle.
iPhone is much less autonomous
than Kindle because it's not meant to run long on a single charge but more importantly because when you are reading an
eBook a back - lit display is drawing a lot of
power from the battery.
Power Patrons, those library users who visit the library at least weekly, drive much of the library's circulation, are active consumers — and buyers — of all media, including
ebooks, and vote at a higher rate
than other patrons.
The Onyx Boox AfterGlow 2 is an Android -
powered ebook reader among a small group of E Ink ereaders from Onyx with the capability of installing Android apps from Google Play, making the device more of an E Ink tablet
than a simple
ebook reader.
One thing I've noticed about the software on these Android -
powered Boyue
ebook readers is that the operating system seems to run a little smoother
than Onyx's Android ereaders.
I was looking at the most recent Pew report on reading and
ebooks and two pieces of info struck me: (1) The number of people reading on tablets and smartphones is rising (especially tablets); and (2) readers who read on ereaders are
power readers, more
than tablet and smartphone readers.
This is because these lists not only derive from the sales numbers provided by
ebook publishers, but have also taken into consideration those important factors such as «different rankings (
power law curve; sales drop sharply as ranks drop) and different account sales
power (number five on Amazon almost certainly sells more
than number five anywhere)».
The Kindle Lending Library effort will be
powered by OverDrive, a digital - content provider that currently provides
ebook services to those aforementioned 11,000 libraries, and which provides
ebook library - lending services to owners of the Sony Reader, a petite device far less successful
than Amazon's Kindle.