Sentences with phrase «replacing print books»

So how, exactly, will replacing print books with ebooks do anything but leave a significant portion of the market, potential or actual, out in the cold?

What if all of the works of Shakespeare, Hemingway, Twain, Alcott, Plato, Rand, and hundreds of other literary icons were all digitized onto today's media replacing their print books.

The popularity of ebooks continues to grow, but they haven't come close to replacing print books.

After years of hearing how the digital book simply had to replace printed books, it certainly appears we are growing closer to that time.

How fast will ebooks replace print books?

There is a lot of heated argument about whether ebooks will replace printed books, the heat generated almost exclusively by people with their own monetary interests in pushing one over the other.

Can we just stop the whole, «They'll never replace print books.

POGUEAnd that's what cracks me up about people who say that e-book readers are going to replace printed books.

First of all, I wanted to disagree with the guest that said that e-books will never replace printed books.

In this current age of technology, you can easily use these Android eReader apps to replace the printed books.

If your kid throws it in the toilet, it costs a few dollars to replace a print book and about a hundred dollars to replace an e-reader (or more, depending on the e-reader).

Very few young panelists said that they would like to see e-books replace print books entirely.

While e-books have yet to replace print books in terms of sales (and incidentally, growth in sales seems to have slowed in recent years), they are a fixture in the marketplace and not going anywhere.

«We'll serve those people for a long time,» Jones said, even as the e-book revolution slowly replaces print books.

Nobody offers to replace your printed books if your house burns down, so why should you have free backups for all your e-books if your e-reader crashes and wipes out your files?

We both believe that they are the way of the future, though we don't believe they will replace print books.

Although eBooks are not expected to replace print books in the next five years, it can serve as special media content that will enhance reading experience.

On the other hand, it's clear that e-books are a growing market; while they may not replace printed books any time soon, they already co-exist with them.

Nothing will ever replace a printed book for some of what i read, but that is barely 10 percent, the rest is ebooks.

With electronic (ebook) sales and readership rising, the question remains whether these digital versions will eventually replace print books.

«Will ebooks replace print books» is still the most popular search query.

E-books are not going to replace print books anytime soon, says Childress, and many publishers seem to struggle with harmonizing the two because of concerns about «cannibalizing» sales.

Not exact matches

Work tables replace desk rows; display and presentation areas are sport examples of student work; students have ready access to open Internet with strong bandwidth, varied computer models from media - ready notebooks to high end media work stations accompanied with a variety of technology tools replace printed text books.

It is right that the pitiful sales of ebooks has constrained the retailers to replace ebooks with the print books.

Unlike print books that wear out and must be replaced, an ebook of digital bits is immortal if the library wishes it so.

Amazon's infrastructure, including the integration of ISBNs into Amazon Standard Identification Numbers (ASINs), has shaped the book trade over last two decades, and in places, has replaced traditional sources of information such as Bowker's Books in Print and Nielsen BookScan.

Before converting print books to ebook formats, it is useful for an editor to page quickly through the book and provide a list of figures to exclude from the ebook version, replaced with a simple notice saying» Figure removed due to licensing restrictions».

The idea is that this matches the average number of times a print book can be checked out before it falls apart and needs to be replaced.

If there are any defects in workmanship, printing errors, or if your book arrives damaged, we are happy to replace your book or refund your money.

Printed books will always be # 1 and can't be replaced.

Print books, which suffer wear and tear from repeated lending, need to be replaced through repurchase.

E-readers may in fact replace books, or at least segments of the book market, but I don't see any way that either freely - available internet fiction or pay - per - whatever internet fiction is going to compete with portable, and more importantly, dedicated print publishing.

The convenience of replacing a heavy printed book, or several, with a lightweight e-reader is appealing, especially for somebody taking a long vacation, Ervin said.

While the first get praised e-readers for their portability and storage capabilities, the print fans insisted that nothing could replace the experience of a bound book.

I still get print books and found that the solution that works best is to buy nice editions of the books I love and get rid of the «meh» books (the ones I wouldn't replace if lost) as my shelves overflow.

Nick Moran of The Millions had interesting prospective, mentioning «The emissions and e-waste for e-Readers could be stretched even further if I went down the resource rabbit hole to factor in: electricity needed at the Amazon and Apple data centers; communication infrastructure needed to transmit digital files across vast distances; the incessant need to recharge or replace the batteries of eReaders; the resources needed to recycle a digital device (compared to how easy it is to pulp or recycle a book); the packaging and physical mailing of digital devices; the need to replace a device when it breaks (instead of replacing a book when it's lost); the fact that every reader of eBooks requires his or her own eReading device (whereas print books can be loaned out as needed from a library); the fact that most digital devices are manufactured abroad and therefore transported across oceans.

Still Ervin said she and her library embrace the new technology and have begun replacing some print reference books with e-books.

Daunt does go on to refute the once - feared belief that print books won't be replaced by digital, but that both will survive in the long run.

These stand - alone machines were envisioned to virtually replace bookshops, meaning the customer of the future would enter a significantly smaller retail space that was completely void of any printed material, select the book from the machine's screen, and wait only minutes as the machine spit out a fully bound and covered edition.

E-books (network license) and printed books (portable license) compliment each other not replace.

For years we could not even think that an electronic gadget can threat to replace printed paper books so easily.

There are no digital book success stories yet, most of the people on planes are not reading an ebook, nobody's rich yet... in fact, nobody's replaced their print income yet.

Her July 10, 2011, article, «Illuminating Texts,» in The Boston Globe was an insightful look back at how reading fundamentally changed when printed books replaced manuscripts.

Digital books will never replace the feel, or «presence,» of a printed book, but for things of transitory nature, and for keeping in touch with blogs and current events, there's something really great about ebooks.

Could I replace some of my print books with ebooks?

I think the technology needs to get better before it will replace the flexibility of print books and the study techniques students are used to using.

Traditional book shops are disappearing off the streets and have been replaced by coffee shops where a book of your choice can be printed especially for you in the time it takes to drink your coffee.

2011 was not a great year for print book sales, with all 5 categories of print book sales down from the year before, with mass - market paperbacks predictably getting hammered the hardest, as they are the most likely to be replaced by e-book sales.

First, print book sales declined in 2010, being replaced by e-book sales.

Nelson Wolff, Bexar County Judge, sees how digital books are coming to replace its print predecessor.