Sentences with phrase «time around ebook»

And if you think the other stuff that was being complained about — rape and incest descriptions, for example — was being read by anyone different than Fifty Shades then you've never spent any time around ebook - reader forums.

Not exact matches

One of my bloggy colleagues, Katie from Nourishing Simplicity, and I released our first eBooks around the same time.

Something resembling a website will be with us for a long time — and as I discuss in the recent digital strategy ebook, websites are still the hub around which the rest of our online outreach revolves.

He said that fewer than 20 of the chain's retail stores are unprofitable, and «we're going to be around a long time» because consumers read both print and ebooks (this is a point that the company has been pressing for awhile, based on its own research).

«We spend a lot of time discussing this with librarians, at conferences and elsewhere, and it's clear that there is still some confusion out there around whether libraries own their ebooks.

This was around the same time people started to buy less ebooks, but suddenly they lost their allure of being cheap and cheerful.

While Shebooks accomplishes this goal through high - quality ebook - shorts written for and by women and are meant to be read in a small time frame, Librify is taking our busy schedules and helping us find time to connect socially around the content.

This report, which showed a 10.5 % increase in digital sales, comes at a time when the debate around ebooks and their viability from different angles is starting to... [Read more...]

I have been thinking about writing an Ebook series for some time now, but I just haven't gotten around to it yet.

I sell my ebooks for $ 4.95, so the obvious price point for an eARC would have been something similar, but I didn't think it'd be worth my time to set everything up, email people (I mistakenly, didn't think of automation this first time around — more on that farther down), and deal with the inevitable «customer service» emails I'd get for $ 5.

Given that there are only around 700,000 eBooks available for Kindle (last time I checked) it's impressive that they are making such and impact on the head of the long tail.

For avid readers who can't find the time to visit their local library or struggle to carry giant tomes of awesomeness around with them, eBooks have become a convenient way to consume books.

With the Touch Edition, Sony has given us one of the best designed readers on the market and with the touch screen marrying perfectly with the new user interface, we have a couple features which really make this one of the most desirable ebook readers around, and should be a serious contender if you're looking to upgrade or be buying an eReader for the first time.

I'd been aware for some time that a lot of libraries had embraced the ability to check out ebooks, but not until this weekend did I get around to actually trying it.

Rooted in one of the world's great publishing houses, the Faber Factory team have developed innovative ways to make sure ebooks get out to multiple retailers in multiple formats around the world, to monitor availability, sales and pricing in real time, and to promote ebooks to readers,» the press release stated.

While Harlequin, a pioneer in the concept of ebook - only was scoffed for its unheard of turn around time and royalty rate, was one of the first to establish a separate division to release ebooks, more companies are following suit.

Companies like Copia have kept the focus more squarely fixed on the educational opportunities that social reading presents, such as allowing students around the world and professors at different institutions to all come together within the ebook to foster discussion and understanding; at the same time, companies like Readmill just enjoy the possibilities of connecting readers of fiction titles in what amounts to almost a virtual book club.

Christmas is right around the corner, and it is time to look at each major online bookstore and what you have to do to gift an eBook.

If you're determined and have lots of extra time laying around, you may approach the site which is currently distributing / linking to your illegal version of your ebook (not the hosting site) and share a piece of your mind.

But that wasn't the case, because the next time around I decided to self - publish a 300 - page book as a paperback and ebook, with the aim of getting into bricks and mortar bookstores as well — so a whole new set of skills and needs.

As the New York Times story reports, eBooks have been around 40 years.

He's a long - time customer, commenter and participant at UMPCPortal and Carrypad and runs a continuous chain of personal blogs (currently he's at Mike Canes iPad Test) that focus around the ebook theme.

No doubt there are others - perhaps especially writers whose ebook rights were never optioned first time around.

Since that time, Kobo has become a fierce competitor in the eBook marketplace, with a family of innovative eReaders, a wide range of eReading apps, one of the largest eBook catalogues, an innovative social platform and retail partners around the globe.

This time around I've got a tutorial on how to easily remove Adobe DRM from ePub and PDF ebooks.

Looking back in fifty or a hundred years, this is the moment in time that will mark the shift to digital in the literary world, even though ebooks have been around for thirty years.

At that time ebook sales made up around 14 % of Penguin's total sales, and the publisher is still relying on its digital sales to prevent reporting a loss.

The average sales per day across the Top 100 Children's Ebooks were around 50 copies per day at an average price level of $ 4.80 at the time.

Just an FYI that KWL staff will still be around over the holidays and that authors can still make changes during that time, but, to keep the website (www.kobo.com) stable, changes, updates and inserts from KWL (and all publishers) are significantly throttled back during that time period in order to ensure the site is stable for the most important of activities: selling eBooks to Kobo's customers.

-- Traditional publishers are setting the prices much higher for ebooks also released in hardback, often matching the price of the hardback, but usually keeping the price of the electronic book around the $ 17.99 range for a time after the hardback release.

NY Times forgot that they had a meandering article about how a lack of book cover images makes ebooks terrible around 6 months ago (perhaps 12).

Would you rather have 20,000 ebook sales on Amazon, with no shot at bookstore placements or the New York Times bestseller list — or would you rather have only 5,000 of your print books scattered through local Barnes & Noble and other retail outlets around the country?

I believe eBook readers will be around for a long time — if their price drops to the price of, say, a Gillette razor.

These are the big ones that will ensure your eBook will be covered with digital dust in the time it takes to move a few million electrons around the globe.

To get around that, Amazon bought the ebooks «in bulk» from publishers and then sold back the books, eating a loss every time.

Apple's entry into the ebook market «arrested all ebook price competition,» Buterman concluded, arguing that any innovation in the space around the time that the iBookstore launched either existed before the launch or couldn't be tied to it.

Meanwhile, the ebook edition is still around but usually costs about three times more than anybody wants to pay for an unknown author, so it hardly sells.

This time around the deal includes top - rated Kindle ebooks for $ 1.99 - $ 4.99.

The current impasse in non-narrative nonfiction eBooks could simply mean that it's time to innovate around it.

This time around the free audiobook and ebook pair is Far from the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy.

eBook readers are very picky about these small details, so make sure you do it right the first time around and turn it into a habit.

The idea of a library that fits in your pocket has been imagined by several writers during the last century, but by the time readers were fascinated by The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (1978), ebooks were already around.

eTextboooks have been around for some time so why corporate training eBooks can not live in the limelight of the previously described functionality?

After several months of working around the clock to bring your eBook to fruition, you may feel that you have too much time on your hands.

Because Amazon dropped the price of the Kindle to $ 99 around this time, the demand for eBooks shot up when inventory was low.

Washington Post — Amazon makes an offer to Hachette authors — this article takes an interesting look at the stats, which indicate that Hachette would have much more to lose by giving up revenue from their author's ebooks than Amazon — «According to Hachette's Web site, the publisher makes approximately 33 percent of its sales from e-books; the New York Times reported that around 60 percent of that business comes through Amazon.

This time around the deal includes three dozen best - selling nonfiction ebooks.

Many times, I've seen Baen brought up in discussions around ebook publication, and nearly every time the automatic response is «That model may work for Baen, but it won't work for us.»

Over 2 million eBooks are waiting to be read by you — browse around the clock in the online stores of the tolino bookstores and download interesting new books onto your eBook Reader at all times.

While I'm not sure this new fleet of devices is a game - changer, spending time yesterday talking to senior executives as well as other Kobo employees, I get the sense that Kobo is picking up momentum in the U.S., where it is thought to have about 3 % market share, and, especially, around the world, where it is either the No. 1 or No. 2 ebook retailer in many countries, including Canada and Japan.