Sentences with phrase «while ibooks»

And while iBooks may on the surface look like merely a viable new sales channel, it also represents a very real threat to publishers, both traditional and «digital first.»

While the iBooks app (available for the iPad only) looks nice, it isn't useable.

Shopping experience: While the iBooks app (available for the iPad only) looks nice, it isn't useable.

While iBooks Author files are similar to ePub files in structure, they are not the same format and are not interchangeable with ePub files.

While iBooks is perfectly fine for a few dozen or perhaps a hundred or so books purchased from the iBooks Store or synced into iTunes, it is extremely unwieldy once you approach 300 + titles loaded into the database.

While the iBooks app supports both buying and reading eBooks, magazines and newspapers are treated more like apps.

While both iBooks and the Kindle app let you turn pages quickly by tapping on the edge of the screen, each also also offers a virtual page - turning animation.

While iBooks and Barnes and Noble are relatively hassle - free, GooglePlay and Kobo do have a few hiccups that are worth mentioning to self - publishers.

For example, the Kindle sample had a single image in the early part of Chapter One, while the iBooks edition had six images.

While iBooks is one way to read ebooks and PDFs on the iPad, it's not the only way.

As for where to buy books: while the iBook Store is not as well - organized as Amazon's, and doesn't have as many titles (30,000 to almost 500,000), this ironically becomes an iPad advantage because you can use the iBook store and / or read Amazon books through Amazon's Kindle for iPad app, which is also excellent.

Not exact matches

The iPad maker is notorious for its anti-porn stance and, while searching its iBooks store for titles containing words such as «daddy» does indeed turn up some prurient material, there doesn't appear to be anything as depraved as in the other stores.

Company tout its extended battery life, tabs, and tags, while demonstrating new features in Safari, Maps and iBooks

The company touted its extended battery life, tabs, and tags, while demonstrating new features in Safari, Maps, and iBooks.

While I appreciate that your book is currently on special on Amazon I will admit to being disappointed that it isn't on special on iBooks.

While I recently published an iBook relating to this subject, I'd love to hear what you're doing with scannable technology in your school - to - home communications.

While that may bothersome with weaker eyesight, I didn't mind because most of your time is spent within apps, where text and visuals are usually larger or, as in the case, of iBooks customizable.

As Smashwords has had a long - standing agreement with Apple, as well as recently announced that it updates its catalog to Apple's iBooks five times a day, seven days a week (no lag times while they get around to it!)

While Kindle takes up a big share of the ebook market, it's a good idea to have your book up in other stores as well, especially Apple iBooks.

While I'm very excited about the opportunity to use iBooks Author as a single tool to create fixed - format ebooks for the three major retailers that accept them (Apple, Kobo, and Amazon), I'm less sanguine about using the app to create reflowable ebooks — unless I'm creating a separate version for use on B&N, Smashwords, and the rest.

April 19 2011 Update: Liz Castro addresses this issue; apparently, the problem is that ibooks doesn't support css properties for width for img while all the other epub implementations seem to.

This setting isn't as high as Apple will allow, but it is a high enough quality for zooming in, while also maintaining an acceptable file size for downloading from the iBook Store.

While it'll be nice for publishers to puff about how their ebooks are selling, it's also an important validation for the Kindles and Nooks and iBooks of the world.

All those words are available on amazon, while selected titles are also on ibooks and kobo.

If you decide to use iBooks Author to create content to distribute through the iBooks Store, though, you should bear in mind that while you can create them on your Mac or MacBook, you need an iPad or iPhone with the iBooks app installed if you want to view the fruit of your labours.

It's interesting that while the first volume of The Walking Dead charts reliably on the Kindle and Nook platforms, only in iBooks do the more recent volumes pop up.

Evil triumphs this week as the second issue of Forever Evil pops up on three charts, while the ponies run wild over at iBooks.

While Coker can give some explanation on the Smashwords site — romance is the top - selling genre there and the majority of those titles are written by women — that is certainly not the case with iBooks or Amazon.

In Australia, iBooks is responsible for around 30 per cent of ebook sales, while Kobo accounts for 35 per cent of sales in Canada.

Disappointingly, while Kindle devices (and iBooks) let you look up words as you read, the Kindle app omits that feature.

And while the Apple iBooks reading app works only on Apple devices, the Kindle reading app works on numerous competitor devices.

You are free to publish also on the iBook and Nook platforms, but you'll need a different file, since they use the ePub format while Kindle uses their own proprietary format.

While we assume that most readers buying the files from our website (which provides Laura and us with greater revenue) will have the technical nous to install the relevant ereading apps etc, we may need to provide some generic instructions for subscribers about downloading files to the different platforms, how to install Kindle and iBook apps, ADE, etc..

While I don't have explicit breakdowns of how many ebooks I've sold via Amazon versus from iBooks — and bearing in mind that I'm a sample size of exactly one — it's not hard to read between the lines and see that Amazon is the overwhelming player in the market.

iBooks gives you more of an animated format, with the ability to add highlights in full color, while Amazon gives you access to ALL of the most popular books at basement prices.

The interface is similar to that of the iBook and therefore needs just a tap on the screen to flip through the comic of choice or download content even while on the move.

iBooks also includes support for listening to an audiobook while browsing a library, reading other books, or viewing the iBooks Store.

In the last chapter, the book explains how to take full advantage of the formatting strengths of EPUB, while taking into account the quirks of the iBooks ereader app on the iPad.

For a while now, you've been able to upload your ebook early on Amazon, Kobo, Apple, and some of the other sites, listing it for pre-order 90 days (Amazon) to a year (iBooks) ahead of time, as many of the traditional publishers do with their titles.

Borders does have a list called «Can't Get These in iBooks» which just seems like an attempt to try to sell themselves as the best e-book store on the iPad and iPhone, while blithely ignoring the elephant in the room that is the Kindle store.

Like the Kindle app, iBooks is an excellent e-reader that feels impressively like the future — while simultaneously feeling a heck of a lot like an actual book.

Apple entered the scene with its iBook software while Amazon finally decided to open up its Kindle Book Store to the Australians at large.

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The feature brings Comixology in line with Amazon, iBooks, and other digital booksellers who have had cross-platform bookmarking for a while.

Additionally, iBooks has never once crashed on me while I was using regular books, since I first started using the app.

While Steve Jobs's preview of the iBooks app did reveal a stunning reading interface, it also raised some questions for me about whether the iPad can truly compete as an e-reader.

D2D has been sending ebooks to most of the usual (non-Amazon) suspects for a while now including iBooks, B&N, Kobo, Scribd and more.

Finally, while you can set a price for your iBook in their digital store, you can only do so if the book is not available in its interactive form anywhere else than Apple, according to its complicated software license agreement.

While Apple may promote its iBooks app as the best reading experience on the iOS, if you prefer Amazon's Kindle app or Barnes & Noble's Nook app, or want to use all three, you're able to do so.

Adding insult to injury, a Codex Group survey from November 2010 found that even iPad owners were buying more e-books from Amazon (which can be read on Amazon's Kindle for iPad app) than from the iBook Store: Amazon e-books accounted for 40 % of iPad users» purchases, while Apple e-books were 29 %.