«We need those metrics to justify what we are doing,» he said, adding that he had discussions
with other ebook vendors during PLA about the prototype.
Not exact matches
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with your preferred
ebook vendor or service for these titles or
other ITI
ebooks that interest you.
It makes some sense that they would want out of the tablet market for good, since
other tablets can run the Nook app, but how would they be a competitive
ebook vendor if there are no dedicated e-readers compatible
with their books?
This is - particularly - true so long as Amazon maintains an exclusuvity policy in tandem
with KU — that is, a writer's
ebook can not participate at all in KU unless it is - completely unavalable - at all
other ebook vendors / outlets besides Amazon.
This «app» has been created by a computer programmer and allows the user to read your book
with it's own
eBook reader included as either part of the application itself, or perhaps it may be grouped together
with a customized eReader «reader» application from a
vendor other than Apple.
If the tool's feature set is compelling enough I'd like to think the
other ebook vendors (e.g., Barnes & Noble, Amazon, Kobo, etc.) will have to come up
with something at least as powerful for their own platforms.
As mentioned before, anyone
with an Android based phone, tablet, or
other device can easily download and install an «app» for any
other major online
ebook vendor.
Penguin Random House today announced a new unified, companywide terms of sale (TOS) policy for
ebook licenses sold to public, school, and
other libraries working
with approved
ebook vendors in the United States and Canada.
And remember that if you buy an iPad you can read books from Apple, from Kindle (via the Kindle app) from B&N.com, Stanza, and numerous
other vendors with various
ebook readers, a capability the Kindle will not emulate.
It's going to be easier and easier to work
with as most major software
vendors make the jump to XML - based files; case in point: Microsoft Word's new docx format is built on XML, and it's not very hard to convert XML to
other formats — say, PDFs, or HTML, or an XML - based
ebook format of your choice.
ebook reader (two Kindles and the Onyx 92 preceded it) and I have tried a number of
others and it seems that Amazon is the only
vendor with a solid firmware base.