This will create a snowball effect where people all around the world start realizing how amazing it is to
read your books in an electronic format!
Reading books in electronic format, as well as other documents, is also supported.
While, at first, they were single - purpose devices that allowed for
reading books in electronic format, they have since gained extra functions.
Not exact matches
Maurice Van Lowe, a 4th grader at Burning Tree Elementary School
in Bethesda, Md.,
reads in his classroom using Bookshare, a nonprofit
electronic service that converts
books into more accessible
formats for students with certain kinds of disabilities.
An e-
book publisher will take a Word or WordPerfect file, design an
electronic cover for it,
format it to look like a
book on screen, and send it back to you
in PDF
format, which can be
read by anyone with a computer using Adobe Acrobat.
Adobe is claiming that the new changes to one of the most popular
electronic book formats in the world is the most secure... [
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If you're not sure what you'll feel like
reading, you can take ALL your
books with you, or at least all the ones you've purchased
in electronic format.
Seventeen percent (17 %)
read about the same number of hard copy and e-
format books, while 15 %
read more and 6 %
read exclusively
in the
electronic format.
Just as having all documents
in an
electronic format would allow all text
books to be carried to all classes and if wanted allow for students to
read material
in years ahead of the class they are currently
in.
An
electronic book reader is a small, portable computer designed for
reading books stored
in a digital
format such as ASCII, PDF, HTML, or another similar
format.
If you're not familiar with Smashwords, and you have an eReader and are worried about
formats, don't be: the vast majority of Smashwords authors opt to publish their
books in a range of
electronic formats, meaning you can
read Smashwords
books on your PC, Kindle, Nook, Sony Reader, Kobo Reader etc etc..
If you own an Amazon Kindle and you'd love nothing better than to be able to
read the entire Harry Potter collection while on the go, you're probably painfully aware that Harry Potter's author, J.K. Rowling, has been holding out on releasing her
books in electronic format on websites like Amazon or Barnes & Noble, choosing instead to release them via her own website, Pottermore.
I guess if every
book was available
in electronic format with no DRM [Digital Rights Management; the ability to choose on which devices you can
read and share a
book —
Books Editor] for reasonable prices ($ 10 max for new / bestseller / omnibus, scaling downwards for popularity and value) it just wouldn't be worth the time, effort and risk to find, download, convert and load the
book when the same thing could be accomplished with a single click on your Kindle.
Today, you'll want your
book available
in HTML and all other publishing
formats, especially «E-PUB,» which can be translated into the
format for cell phones, the iPad, iPhone, Blackberry, Stanza, Kindle, Sony and other
electronic reading devices.
As technology advances and more
books move from hard - copy print to
electronic formats, people with print disabilities have for the first time
in history the opportunity to enjoy access to
books on an equal basis with those who can
read print.
Transform content
in a wide range of source
formats into quality
electronic books and publications that can be
read on popular eReaders
I don't need to feel bad about not paying authors when I only
read their
book in pirated
electronic format because no one is losing any sales are they?
Forgot one more point: I have a lot of trouble finding the
books I want to
read in electronic formats.
pdb is Palm Media ebook
format,
read in eReader that is a freeware program for viewing Palm Digital Media
electronic books, Versions are available for iPhone, PalmOS, WebOS, Android, Symbian, BlackBerry.
I pull down a number of websites and RSS feeds to
read when I'm offline, and I have a large collection of fiction
in electronic format (mostly from Baen
Books [baen.com]-RRB-.