Sentences with phrase «proprietary ebook system»

If Amazon wants to stay in the game with its proprietary ebook system then it's going to need to come up with an ereader with a color screen.

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Libraries can «lend» ebooks a fixed number of times before they have to buy them again, usually at significant markup, and many proprietary, cumbersome systems exist that require a specific e-reader.

Since the Kindle line of e-readers uses a proprietary ebook reading format and Overdrive mainly handles EPUB and PDF ebooks, there is a fair number of system revisions to be made to accommodate the new Amazon program.

Any bookstore that sells eBooks with their proprietary system is mandated to share previously - private customer data directly with copyright holders and BREIN.

Autography Sues the Tampa Bay Devil over Proprietary Technology — Autography has pioneered a system that allows authors to autograph ebooks by putting a blank page into an existing book.

This made the production of ebook readers very hard as text rendering would have to be based on proprietary systems.

In the last five years Amazon have, in addition to dominating online bookselling, bought a book social network, a major print - on - demand supplier, a complete end - to - end self - publishing system, pretty much the entire used books marketplace, the biggest audiobook distributor, the best iPhone ereader, and designed, built and delivered the only truly mass - market dedicated ereading device, with a proprietary format that sets them up to be the iTunes of eBooks.

It follows concerns that Amazon's Kindle ebook strategy is designed to lock publishers into its proprietary system.

Many competing international e-reader brands have exactly this system though: you buy their e-reader and are tied in to their ecosystem with an ebook store with books in a proprietary format.