Sentences with phrase «very early ebook»

I happen to be a very early ebook user and was a customer of Fictionwise, now bought by B&N, they have an ereader format with a.

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2 min readWe can all agree that when it comes to eBooks, we're still at the very early stages of their existence.

Traditional publishers helped indie publishers a lot in this very early period by deciding that they didn't like electronic books and priced them up near hardcover levels, as if an ebook was a specialty item.

That final bit is interesting in relation to Google's indie bookseller angle, — a very savvy PR move on their part, partnering with the likes of mega-independent Powell's and smaller retailers like WORD via the ABA's IndieCommerce platform — and the belief that this somehow levels the playing field, as if ebooks have been the issue all along, as opposed to Amazon's perfecting ecommerce while Jeff Bezos ignored the pundits who focused only on his quarterly earnings in the early years.

Earlier printed books were very familiar to every single person but now eBooks are becoming the leading source of reading books all around the world.

Sales of Kobo Readers and ebooks, though in the very early stages, are encouraging, he says.

In all seriousness, the very early days of the digital publishing revolution showed us that ebooks could hold their own in the book publishing arena, or at the very... [Read more...]

Sales of Kobo Readers and ebooks, though in the very early stages, are... [Read more...]

Other interesting bits: current ebook distributors on the App Store now are going to get screwed once Apple's official one hits, and don't expect a lot of content until «mid 2010 at the very earliest.»

Given the relatively early stage the market is in — especially the consumer ebook market — small ideas that are simple to implement and help to build forward momentum were very welcome.

Earlier this year, he wrote an eBook about eBook Design and Development Guide that has decent sales despite a very niche audience.

While eBook readers are very much the in thing right now, it's still a segment of gadgetry reserved mainly for well - heeled early adopters.

So when Apple proposed in late 2009 and early 2010 that there could be a new way to sell called «agency» which would put retail pricing power for ebooks into the publishers» hands, it met a very receptive audience of publishers.

By Joe Wikert December 16, 2010 Despite the recent surge in ebook sales we're still very much in the early stages of this new platform.