Sentences with phrase «seems as physical books»

Not exact matches

As a result, Amazon would seem to have less room for error than Apple, and while it has plenty of high - margin products to sell in the form of accessories, the rumored mix of Kindle devices and physical books doesn't seem incredibly enticing, especially when prices for Kindles are so low (that's the stuff you don't mind buying online) and only going lower.

Although ebooks seem to be the wave of the future, this interested me as I still prefer to read a physical book rather than an ebook.

Interestingly, it seems as though books were the only area where physical wins out over digital, as music, movies, and magazines were all preferred in e-versions by the majority.

As the race between physical books and their digital counterpart e-books continues, the latter seems to be extending the lead with each passing day.

Thinking about this over the weekend, it seems to me that even as the internet is the instigator of many of publishing's woes, it's also a relief valve of sorts in that it allows publishers to connect readers with content, while at the same time being more (appropriately) selective about which content is turned into physical books.

If it seems odd with ebooks, it's only because we're still seeing them as a facsimile of physical books.

So they seem intent on stalling e-book adoption as long as possible (as evidenced by them trying to raise prices in the face of clear consumer outcry, attaching invasive DRM to their titles, disabling TTS access, delaying e-book releases, and generally releasing poorly - formatted scans of physical books).

The other problem with your argument is that you seem to be treating printed books — a form of physical property in which a single copy of intellectual property has been placed — as the same as an e-book, which is a license to view intellectual property owned by another individual or company.

Well, assuming that the publications are physical journals or books and not pdf files, for instance... it seems to me that a weblog with an RSS feed is hard to beat: it lets you post your announcements, which those subscribing will get, and your encouragements, which can be as graphical as you like — posting graphics to a blog isn't hard — and then your readers can respond using comments.