Not exact matches
-- 2 % statistics figures is no serious argument or trend indication — all consumer agreements are drafted by selling companies and, thus, hugely favor the latter, it's take it or leave it — quoted Apple provision is standard indirect damages exclusion, any damages cases for consumers
using digital text documents are unlikely anyway — printed book is always better but it takes
space — some educational piece on drawbacks of
ebooks and bookstores would serve better purpose
The idea was conceived when
using the page hyperlink tool with Year 5 who were
using them to create a contents page for their
Space Fact
ebooks.
Here's a padded lapdesk from Padded
Spaces that can be
used with laptops (MacBook Pro and Air), but it has an integrated stand that makes it perfect for tablets and
eBook readers.
However, you can enlist Amazon's vast resources to release your book to a global audience by
using one or all of the following: • Amazon Create
Space (for physical books) • Amazon KDP (Kindle Direct Publishing)(for
eBooks) • Amazon ACX (for audio books)
I have
used a kindle before but had to trash it coz the screen got spoilt, another issue was the
space... if you have lots of old PDF «s, as well as an ever increasing library of
ebooks then you would want the storage
space.
You can adjust how small or large it is, and depending on the reading device or app you
use, you can often change font type, font weight, text alignment,
spacing — and with tools like Calibre you can pretty much format an
ebook any way you want if you're determined to do so.
This would give them an excellent place to sell their
eBooks from their fledgling publishing division and also give incentives for authors who
use Amazon Create
Space and Kindle Direct Publishing.
There are a few things about the Sony PRS - 650 that could
use improving, mainly the same things that are listed on the PRS - 350 review: the lack of styling options, such as changing line -
spacing, margins, font type, etc, all of which requires adding fonts and editing the CSS file of an
ebook to change styling; the fact that landscape mode breaks pages into two sections for
ebooks, showing duplicate sentences; and other minor annoyances like having to go through multiple menu selections for certain features and settings.
Your cover designer will need to give you three versions of your cover: One for IngramSpark
using the template provided by their generator, another version for CreateSpace with white
space for the barcode they automatically insert, and a version (front cover only) for the
eBook.
If you already include information like this in the back of your
eBooks, what have you found to be the most effective
use of that
space?
I've worked on two
ebook conversions recently where the designers had
used spaces (or possibly hairspaces) and line feeds to make the pages flow cleanly and attractively on the printed page.
Ebooks don't take up a lot of
space, so you can
use a large flash drive.
If you publish
ebooks, the correct answer is to
use just one
space after the period — not two.
In this
Ebook edition of The Land Between, author Jeff Manion
uses the biblical story of the Israelites» journey through Sinai desert as a metaphor for being in undesired, transitional
space.
If you can actually make this practice to
use Ctrl -
space in all the right places part of your general writing habit, all the better, you will be properly prepared right off the bat, and you will make the life of your
eBook formatter a whole lot easier.
With
ebooks, there is no need to be a «best - seller» out of the gate or be consigned to mid-lister hell, no competition for limited shelf
space, and no remaindering or going out of print (which of course most publishers
use mostly as an excuse to hold on to publishing rights forever).
Be sure to check the indent size in whatever
ebook program you
use to make sure that it looks good (different program translate
spacing differently).
I see the advantage of
ebooks to libraries is that (1) they don't have to pay (much) for storage
space, often for books that are little
used and (2) they can lend «more» copies of a book than they actually have — why shouldn't a library lend 30 copies of an
ebook at the same time (ie pre-exams), rather than just the one, provided there's a payment mechanism attached (sorry, there's always a commercial aspect!).
The main difference with
ebooks using the Adobe Viewer is that you can't change the font type,
spacing, margins, etc., like with FBReader; you're stuck with the standard font and publishers» layouts.
Kobo's
ebook readers have settings for customizing line
spacing and margins, but there are annoying limitations at times, especially when it comes to all the wasted
space Kobo insists on
using at the top and bottom of the screen to display the title of the
ebook and the page numbers.
The main difference with
ebooks using the Adobe Reader is that you can't change the font type,
spacing, margins, etc., like with FBReader; you're stuck with the standard font and publishers» layouts.
Combine that with the fact that most Kobo
ebooks uses spaces between paragraphs instead of indentations, it really makes for lots of blank
space, especially with dialogue.
I don't have enough storage
space for my books, and so I only get hard copies of ones that are either reference books (cookbooks, travel guides, etc. where the
ebooks aren't always practical to
use) or by top favorite authors that I'll get signed the next time I see them.
2) I suspect (and this is a bit of a pet theory of mine) that Apple stays in the
ebook space primarily to disrupt the educational textbook market (I think that iBooks Author + iTunesU + «cheap» iPad 2s = a strategy for fostering disruption in education at the grass - roots level); their presence in trade publishing is relatively incidental (this may have not been so at the start — I also suspect that launching iBooks along with iPad was initially a hedge against uncertainty about user adoption and viable
use cases for the iPad.
While the XMDF format has been in
use for years already, primarily within Japan, this new «Next generation» prefix does make the format notable as a competitor in the
ebook space.
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