Sentences with phrase «reader devices like»

It's Amazon's E-ink-based Kindle reader devices like the Kindle and Kindle Touch that are really taking a hit.

Reader devices like the iPhone and Amazon Kindle allow users to download book or newspaper text and access it anywhere without purchasing the physical book.

Not exact matches

Like Square, Ezetap's device has a card and chip reader.

For one, Amazon, like other e-book sellers, has used a scheme known as «digital rights management» (DRM), which limits the types of devices that can read certain e-book formats.259 Compelling readers to purchase a Kindle through cheap e-books locks them into future e-book purchases from Amazon.260 Moreover, buying — or even browsing — e-books on Amazon's platform hands the company information about your reading habits and preferences, data the company uses to tailor recommendations and future deals.261 Replicated across a few more purchases, Amazon's lock - in becomes strong.

Theo Allen, a math student at NYU's Tandon School of Engineering who attended Tuesday's event, said he'll be participating in the competition, and mentioned three technologies he'll look at: a gun that can be locked using a smart phone app; a gun activated by a fingerprint reader; and a gun that can only be used if triggered by a digital chip embedded in a nearby device, like a ring.

A new kind of electronic paper could make the readers brighter and more colorful, which is of interest to conservationists who would like to see the devices replace paper editions.

One sees laser diodes every day in laser pointers, barcode readers and the like, and a key element of such devices is an optical - gain medium, which instead of absorbing incident light, amplifies it.

I noticed that really skilled readers liked the devices and so did really struggling readers, particularly boys.

In the short term, the migration from print to ePub3 was less about the books that more interactivities and accessible content, but was much more towards slicing the cost of production and delivery of the book across the wide range of devices like tablets and smartphones that modern readers were using.

Inside, there's all the connectivity you'd expect in a modern luxury sedan, like 4G LTE Wi - Fi for up to eight devices, streaming Internet radio, personalized news readers, and more.

The A6 is also equipped with all the connectivity you'd expect in a modern luxury sedan, like 4G LTE Wi - Fi for up to eight devices, streaming Internet radio, personalized news readers, and more.

While talks about cutting - edge smartphones dominated last year's Digital Book Conference — the International Digital Publishing Forum's annual e-publishing conference in New York — the focus of the morning session this year was market feedback on the progress of devices like the Sony Reader and the introduction of new ones, such as Telecom Italia's pocket - sized Librofonio, which is expect -LSB-...]

Make it easy for readers who like your post to share it with their network right from their mobile devices or laptops.

Many people have argue with me for years on the subject of dedicated eBook reader devices, with any number of reasons they like them, but it is really only that they can't read small print or they still want «the look and feel» of the dead trees pulp bound up in dead animal skins.

Issuu gives anyone with digitally bound content the ability to upload and distribute their publications worldwide, on any device, presented in a beautiful, magazine - like reader.

A special application that enables a general - purpose device such as a mobile phone, PC or tablet to act like a specialised e-book reader.

On the plus side, the Reader Pocket Edition uses the ePub format, which is more versatile than the proprietary formats used by devices like the Kindle, as I explained in my October review of the Pocket Edition:

Seems like a much better business plan all around to develop a reader base that spans devices and formats.

There are reports that Amazon has a Square reader - like device in the works, one that will plug into a smartphone or tablet (presumably not only the Fire phone or Kindle Fire) and allow small business people to take advantage of the reliance on credit cards that many consumers have.

I especially like the point that this methodology can be invisible to the reader and does not interfere with the ability to read / move the book to any device (that can read ePub books).

It's the perfect device for a library book reader who likes to have her hands free (I lay it on my lap or stand it up on a table to read while eating, for example, or just because I can!

The catch here is that multipurpose devices like tablets and smartphones are usually less suited for e-book reading than the dedicated e readers.

it remove DRM protection from PDB ebook of ereader.com, let user read new ebook in other computer or other e-reader device, like Kindle, Sony Reader, iPad, user also can print PDB ebook without limitation.

On top of Reading Life, there is another reader - friendly service that Kobo is incorporating, which it is calling Reading Mode — essentially this is like an automatic airplane mode that you can turn on to cut off alerts from other applications, and at the same time it uses sensors on the device to optimise lighting on the screen.

E-book readers, also known as e-Readers in certain quarters, are not exactly the fastest moving tablet - like device in the market at the moment, and neither has it been that way for a long time.

I know indie authors and many readers would like us publishers to get rid of them so you could transfer files between devices... I get that... I'd like it to.

Today's Bone Walker major news item: if you're a reader of ebooks on Kobo devices and / or apps, OR if you're Android - inclined and like to get your digital media from Google Play, then the book is now available for preorder on platforms FOR YOU!

When Amazon started meeting with publishers about the Kindle, its future e-book reader, in 2006, the device may well have seemed to them like just another goofy Amazon idea.

3) Two years ago Tim O'Reilly predicted that «Unless Amazon embraces open e-book standards like epub, which allow readers to read books on a variety of devices, the Kindle will be gone within two or three years.»

You can mount Kindle just like the Sony reader or any other USB storage device.

Kindle Fire is the newest offering from Amazon as the eBook device now acts more like a tablet instead of just a pure eBook reader.

Kobo will seek to reach the «avid reader» in the Indian market who, he believes, would like to read on a single - purpose device, i.e. an ereader.

All reading devices should allow the reader to adjust whatever aspect of the formatting that they like, while allowing a setting that renders the ebook as designed by the publisher.

No doubt feeling some heat from added competition in the e-book reader market thanks to new devices like the Apple iPad, Barnes & Noble announced on Monday a lower - priced version of the existing Nook 3G.

Unlike fixed - layout ebooks, content is fluid and paginates automatically according to device and reader settings (like a website does).

it produce a epub ebook that you read in other computer or other e-reader device, like Sony Reader, iPad, user also can print Kindle ebook without limitation.

Some e-readers allow users to «flick forward and flick back,» indulging impulses to skip around rather than focus, and devices like the Kindle Fire allow readers to be distracted by internet access or even videogames.

While talks about cutting - edge smartphones dominated last year's Digital Book Conference — the International Digital Publishing Forum's annual e-publishing conference in New York — the focus of the morning session this year was market feedback on the progress of devices like the Sony Reader and the introduction of new ones, such as Telecom Italia's pocket - sized Librofonio, which is expect to be introduced in the U.S. late this year.

There is a limitation with devices like the Sony Reader, in that they can not handle chapter sizes (the HTML files) larger than 300KB and the last time I checked PG creates these EPUB's without splitting the chapters in separate HTML files; therefore many are over this 300KB limit.

They like the fact that Kobo uses recognized standards and so their readers are not locked into a particular device.

Users are jailbreaking their devices and adding alternate readers to add new features (like alternate fonts and better typography)?

«For every author who meticulously examines the latest developments in physics or computing, there are other authors who invent «impossible» technology to serve as a plot device (like Le Guin's faster - than - light communicator, the ansible) or to enable social commentary, the way H. G. Wells uses his time machine to take the reader to the far future to witness the calamitous destiny of the human race.»

And it's all presented as DRM - free PDFs, which means you can download the comics to any device you like and read them with any PDF reader app — no proprietary app needed.

Not everyone is a «reader enthusiast», like a «gadget freak»: some of us need devices for work, production, and require flexibility, customization.

My feelings about iOS devices have changed markedly over recent months, from: Why get an overpriced Apple device when I can get a much cheaper and higher specced Android equivalent that also has the «missing basics» like a USB port and card - reader..?

And the number of adults who own an e-book reading device like a Kindle or Nook reader jumped from 24 % in September to 32 % after the holidays.

If you would like to see for yourself, download Moon + Reader for your Android device now.

The big difference with our device is that it is not a concept like this sheet music reader, but a final product.

These devices are using some applications like Kobo e-reader, known as e-pub readers to open the digital versions of books.

This is the third generation of touchscreen Sony Reader devices and like the PRS - 650, the screen is sharp and glare free, offering excellent contrast and fast refresh rates.