Sentences with phrase «text book publishers»

I suspect that once more text book publishers put out eText Books that are less expensive than hard copies, that the number of eBook readers owned by students will rise significantly.

Get a sample chapter ready to send to text book publishers; don't send the whole book even if it is ready and sparkling.

Most text book publishers, as well as informational text publishers, use these features to make the content easier to understand.

Reader's Entertainment reported back in October about an Australian text book publisher that was delivering their books via drone.

I am in the UK working for a school text book publisher and we have just started looking at the possibility of converting some of our text books into ebook format.

So, based upon projections (no less) of what it may be like in 2050, the authors and the text book publisher are to be taken to task?

Not exact matches

I also know several instructors who have pointed out to me the deliberate modifications to text books for the sake of publisher profits that are forced upon students every year.

Fearful of having their books omitted from lists of «acceptable» texts, a number of publishers have acquiesced to creationist demands in various ways: by considerably reducing the space given to discussion of evolution, by referring to evolution as «only a theory,» by including creationist materials, or by placing references to evolution in a final chapter which the teacher could conveniently Omit.

Some of those small books with the text of the poem, meanings of difficult words and the paraphrase are published by interested publishers from time to time for popular usexlix.

Thanks to the generosity of some Canadian book publishers, I happen to have a second (unstained, unmarked, and unthumbed through) copy of [amazon text = Greens + Grains & asin = 1452131597] to give away.

Three things happened to the TEKS and all - science education standard that called for teaching the strength and weaknesses of theories, which had, back in the last time biology text books were adopted in the mid»90s, had been used as a club to beat publishers over whether or not they included weaknesses of evolution; by which they may enlist creationists and their claims, was taken out by the writing committees and attempted to be put back on several occasions actually by the school board members.

Peachpit Press bills Aether Madness as «a radical challenge to the publishing industry», and they are right: the publishers have put the entire text of this 300 - page paperback on the World Wide Web, where anyone with Internet access can read the book for free.

CABI is a leading global publisher producing key scientific publications, including the world renowned CAB Abstracts (the leading bibliographic database in the applied life sciences), Global Health, as well as Compendia, books, eBooks and full text resources.

Tracey Maurer, writer of over 100 nonfiction books, talked with students about how she does research, works with a publisher, and comes up with ideas for her texts.

Major publishers produce lists of «educational administration» texts that number hundreds of books, though they publish nothing similar on managing pharmaceutical firms, retirement communities, or fire departments.

Licensing: A Better Way to «Buy» Computer Texts What if, instead of purchasing hard copies of computer texts, school districts license the books from the publisher at a cost of $ 5 per Texts What if, instead of purchasing hard copies of computer texts, school districts license the books from the publisher at a cost of $ 5 per texts, school districts license the books from the publisher at a cost of $ 5 per user?

Each of the 184 lessons in the book includes a publisher's summary, a rationale or explanation of the craft move demonstrated in the book, and a procedure that takes teachers and students back into the mentor text to deepen their understanding of the selected craft move.

Schools may choose to subscribe to the F&P Text Level Gradient containing 46,282 books submitted by over 300 publishers.

Publishers and authors can submit their content and make it available to Kindle customers by using Amazon's new Digital Text Platform (DTP), a fast and easy self - publishing tool that lets anyone upload and sell their books in the Kindle Store.

SEATTLE, Jan 20, 2010 (BUSINESS WIRE)-- Amazon.com (NASDAQ: AMZN) today announced details of a new program that will enable authors and publishers who use the Kindle Digital Text Platform (DTP) to earn a larger share of revenue from each Kindle book they sell.

The Kindle can only download books from Amazon's store, while Sony's Readers can display texts sold in the «epub» format - an open standard supported by the International Digital Publishing Forum that numerous publishers use to make e-books.

Then you'll see my main audio training (and text transcript), which reveals the 7 Insider Secrets You Need to Know to Get a Top Literary Agent, Publisher, and Book Deal.

When you see an error - riddled e-book from a major publisher, it's likely that the book is an older one, and was made by scanning a paper copy of the book and converting it to digital text via optical character recognition (OCR).

The Lawgiver is told through «letters, memos, emails, journals, news articles, recorded talk, tweets, Skype transcripts, and text messages,» according to a press release from Simon & Schuster, who bought the book (their current publisher, Jonathan Karp, is a huge Wouk fan).

First and foremost, many books were placed on Amazon's Kindle Store by publishers through MobiPocket instead of the Kindle Direct Publishing (KDP, formerly Digital Text Platform or DTP).

This text is fairly standard across books and publishers but you can tweak it as you would like to.

Keep in mind that not all Kindle books support text - to - speech, just the ones where authors and publishers have approved it.

The Company announced that authors and publishers around the world can now use the self - service Kindle Digital Text Platform (DTP) to upload and sell books in English, German and French to customers worldwide in the Kindle Store.

I suspect we'll see a lot of school text books that try to imitate video games — mostly developed by people who, as you say, are unlikely to be writers and publishers.

Jutoh is somewhat more polished and more fun to work with, and has various extras such as a desktop for adding shortcuts and notes, the ability to add scraps (web addresses, images, and text) to your Jutoh document without them appearing in the ebook, and several ways to customize your book for different web sites or publishers.

Publishers are no longer compelled to pack tiny text onto pages with thin margins to save thirty pages per book over a print run of thousands.

Think about the process of publishing a book by a new author from the publisher's perspective: they have to hire a staff to read query letters, book excerpts, and full texts.

Question: During a conversation with my publisher, we were discussing the marketing text for my new book's back cover copy, catalogue copy, and ad copy to be released this fall.

FarFaria's CEO and co-founder Ajay Godhwani spoke to Good e-Reader about the platform and the partnerships they have with publishers like Orca Books — along with a Big Five publisher who will be named in an announcement this week — as well as offered a guided tour through how young children interact with their texts.

Most of the content is highly interactive and publishers can easily insert a picture and the text will automatically conform to where the picture is dragged within the book.

Baen Books is the only close to big publisher who I know is doing it right: all e-books are sold at a maximum price of $ 6.00, the author gets more dollars out of that price than he does out of the hard copy sales, and there's no DRM locking the text down and keeping the user from moving what he has purchased to whatever platform he wants to put it on.

As cut - and - paste is a feature on many iPad apps, I assume that book publishers have arbitrarily put the kibosh on ebook clipping — even when the clipped text is as short as the less - than - full - page sections a reader is limited to with highlighting and notations.

If a library can buy one electronic copy of a book being used as a course text with a unlimited multiple simultaneous user license, then no student in the class has to go buy the book and the publisher loses all those sales.

However, all of the efforts have not been without the occasional brush with the law, as book publishers have not taken too kindly to Diaz's efforts to provide students with text books for free.

For quite a few years now, mainstream publishers have been handing out cards like this (4 × 6) with the book cover on the front, sales text on the back, along with a download code for a digital review copy.

Appearing before the main text, front matter is comprised of pages that include information about the book, about you, and about the publisher.

In the event that a publishing house acquires your book, the publishers will match your text with an illustrator of their choice.

Using Blio, readers can sample and purchase Smashwords books, create digital libraries for purchased and sampled titles, publish text or YouTube video book reviews, and «favorite» their chosen authors, publishers, and titles.

A post by children's publisher Scholastic outlines some of the benefits to children's audiobooks, most notably perhaps being the erased stigma of a student reader having to use lower - level texts; once a student is listening to an audiobook, his peers have no way of knowing what he's reading and if that book is far easier than books read by the rest of the class.

Users would pay a monthly fee or adhere to the freemium model of ads within the texts in order to get to read; the publishers would then receive compensation for the books that were consumed during that month, either in full or in page - view portions.

Kindle Kids» Book Creator makes it easy for authors and publishers to import artwork, add text to pages, and preview how their book will look on Kindle deviBook Creator makes it easy for authors and publishers to import artwork, add text to pages, and preview how their book will look on Kindle devibook will look on Kindle devices.

While publishers are the ones who set the price of digital editions of children's books, it's disconcerting that a fixed - page children's ebook costs so prohibitively more than some of the app books that smaller publishers are developing for children that include such features as human - narration, highlighted read along text, touch - screen word pronunciation and foreground spelling, interactive word games, and more.

At least one of us has had to show traditional publishers how to make text in an e-book look more like what you get in a printed book (effects, etc.).

Publishers set the price, and they can sell multiple editions of the same book with different «features»: one might have an audio track or special text - to - speech voices, while another could be plain text.

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