Sentences with phrase «small numbers of ebooks»

Before we get too carried away with the activities of Rakuten Kobo, Honto and Booklive it is worth bearing in mind that they are still working with relatively small numbers of ebooks.

Only a small number of ebook vendors (actually, Springer is the only one I know of) allow for any sort of ILL, which means that the more our book collections go digital, the less we will be able to loan to other libraries or borrow from other libraries.

One interesting caveat, here's a quote from Google's ebook info page, «A small number of ebooks may not be enabled for download to your eReader due to limits set by the publisher; those ebooks will display an alert message («No download files included») before you purchase or get the ebook.»

That's 79 million dollars for giving people access to a small number of ebooks of their vast collection.

Not exact matches

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.

While the numbers remain small — only a total of thirty - three libraries offer some form of ebooks — it's the high rate of... [Read more...]

The number of ebooks sold was smaller than they expected so the payment was increased.

The largest number of eBooks were held by 45 - 54 year olds, who had an average of 22, while 16 -24-year-olds had the smallest, at just 12.

With the number of fantastic small presses and ebook publishers out there today, getting an internship with a publisher has never been easier.

Barblan explained Bowker's initial involvement with these partners as a way to help smaller entities compete more effectively in the book market; as so many customers begin their involvement in publishing by seeking out Bowker as a source of ISBN numbers, the next logical step was also the need to have trackable metadata and ebook editions of those books, leading Bowker to explore fulfilling this need in some way.

EBooks obviously have a future, and Smashwords has provided easy access to the big EBook retailers, as well as a number of small ones.

The numbers were quite staggering Research shown that ebook piracy increased by a whopping 78 % after the first few weeks of the iPad release The Rise of eBook piracy is still pathetically small if you look at Music, Video Games or movie distribuebook piracy increased by a whopping 78 % after the first few weeks of the iPad release The Rise of eBook piracy is still pathetically small if you look at Music, Video Games or movie distribueBook piracy is still pathetically small if you look at Music, Video Games or movie distribution.

The option to bundle ebooks can be especially helpful for smaller press publishers, digital - first or ebook - only publishers, or indie authors with a number of titles, as it helps with the discoverability while not forcing the rights» holder to focus their resources on separate marketing strategies for each different book.

There are already hundreds of authors effectively self - publishing to Kindle, and quite a number of small publishers who are happy to work the ebook market.

Other updates include sharing reading awards with Reading Life on Facebook, as well as highlighted passages, and another option was added to the advanced settings menu for turning on and off the small page numbers that sometimes appear in the margins of some ePub ebooks.

I mentioned this in my video above, but I find the system fonts in the menus, home screen and at the bottom of ebooks for page numbers to be way too light and small.

Mike Shatzkin had a good post recently talking about how the ebook market is incredibly concentrated on a remarkably small number of bestsellers due to the lack of browsing capability for shoppers.

This eBook Collection contains more than 3,460 titles that are freely accessible and a small number of purchased titles.

A small message is added to the bottom of each page of the document containing your name and the order number of your eBook purchase.

A diminuitive, fast and well - priced eBook reader that doesn't only meet its competition feature by feature but also offers a number of unique features besides being the one of the smaller yet most capable eReader devices around.

What this meant was that Kindle owners bought ebooks in numbers much greater than the relatively small number of devices placed would have suggested.

Before we get into the nitty gritty of that, it's important to keep in mind that ebooks are still only a relatively small percentage of overall books sold — somewhere between 15 - 25 %, depending on who you talk to and which numbers you go by, and Amazon sales as a percentage of total books sold is 27 - 30 %.

Granted, the number is too small for the overall data to be skewed, but should the number of Amazon Kindle First ebooks increase, that would have to be taken into account.

There are a growing number of regional ebook readers from smaller companies on the market.

There was a huge increase in the number of small eBooks I sold this month.