All my friends don't use
the same ebook platform I use.
Not exact matches
At Hazlitt, Random House Canada's
platform for digital publishing initiatives, the approach to promoting an
ebook is the
same as promoting a print book.
The video titles are housed on the
same platform as all of your
eBook, audiobook and music titles, creating a simple, one - location user experience for the patrons.
Making it look the
same, on all the different devices,
platforms, and
ebook stores, is really really hard.
You can buy the exact
same ebooks from Amazon, Kobo, or Google and read them on a multitude of devices, not just one
platform and brand.
Their
ebooks are all delivered and restricted using the
same software (Adobe's DRM server or Amazon's Kindle
platform).
Just as other
ebook users have enjoyed the frenetic pace of other forms of
ebook creation, digital textbook and educational software developer Kno will unveil a
platform today that can bring digital textbooks to the
same speed as other books.
This will put
ebooks onto the
same monitoring
platform as tangible books and make the entire process easier to deal with from a logistics point of view.
Despite the fact that Random House sells these
same culinary titles as
ebooks on other distribution
platforms, consumers who opt to buy the cookbooks through the site are only able to view their purchased titles through the app or website, something that directly contradicts the great portability and access - anywhere features of digital reading.
Yet some of the
same authors who publish through Amazon's Kindle Direct Publishing
platform appear to be venting their frustration that the retailer allows some truly horrible, poor - quality
ebooks to clog up the catalog of titles, essentially blocking consumers from finding the veritable gems of literature that those commentators obviously have written.
I understand that
ebooks are a tougher nut to crack because you can lend out as many copies of the
same book as you please, that's why a legitimate way to lend needs to be created across
platforms.
OverDrive's magazine service features no circulation cap, simultaneous use for titles, and premium content, all conveniently integrated into the
same platform users come to for their
eBook and audiobooks.
Scholastic's Storia
ebook platform is also connected to the book fairs and the
same information is provided through the app, allowing parents to choose the digital edition of books for their children during the excitement of the book fair.
Not very revolutionary, given the growing numbers of
ebook platforms that let authors upload content and create a book — for free, no less — in the
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The system I am building enables personalized
ebooks, including signed
ebooks,
ebooks with book plates and
platform - optimized
ebooks (i.e. KF7 and KF8 from different sources in the
same file).
Most other
ebook platforms, including Kindle and Adobe, allow the
same sort of thing where an
ebook can be issued to up to six different devices at once, but only when associated to a single account.
Do set up your
ebook to release on multiple vendors at the
same time (unless you are in Amazon's KDP Select, which prohibits selling on other
platforms).
They're apparently bigger fans of the
platforms Amazon, B&N, and to a lesser degree, Apple, have built to purchase and read
ebooks, and the
ebooks themselves don't have the
same emotional connection as those they buy in print to keep on bookshelves.
The development comes on the same day as the launch of Google eBooks, which will allow independent bookshops to sell digital books via Google ' s e-books platform.
In other words, aside from any
platform fees, you will want to apply the
same criteria to purchasing
ebooks with this one user / one copy model as you would to purchasing printed books.
And most
ebook purchases come from Apple or Amazon — and the way people buy those books (finding the book, looking at the cover, reading the reviews, reading the description, downloading to their device) is just about the
same — and the book's pricing should be the
same across
platforms.
The company's digital arm provides audiobook and
eBook lending to the library market through the RBdigital
platform, alongside several other
platforms specializing in
same - day newspapers and magazines, adult learning and language tutorial programs.
Publish your
ebook on Kindle, then just continue to publish the print version on the
same platform and interface.