Years later, Apple realized the potential of the e-book format with the tablet computer.
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Take three minutes to download, ten minutes to replay, all to listen to information that would take two minutes to convey in e-mail format.
And popular Japanese author Ryu Murakami may have signaled things to come when he wrote a novel specifically for an enhanced e-book format, skipping his publisher altogether.
Some believe Nook is as good as Kindle (or even better if one values an open e-book format), but not enough if one goes by market share.
The introduction of shorter format e-Books could create more upside to our estimate of e-Books revenues.
He argues that the two readers signal E-ink's transition to larger-format digital media that include magazines and newspapers.
Although these shorter format e-Books are expected to be priced lower than traditional e-Books, we expect revenues to be compensated through higher unit sales.
Virtually anyone who uses sketching to capture their creative ideas and wants to have their drawings in a digital format to e-mail, archive or further refine on their computer can benefit from Inkling.
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Some library patrons reported waiting lists for popular e-books, or that the library e-book wasn't offered in a format compatible with their device.
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It also allows vendors to offer information, goods and services in a format retrievable with e-speak.
The results were shown in a list format, and e-mails could be sorted by sender, subject and date, just as in Outlook.
Get ready for hordes of shoppers to hit Best Buy and other discount electronics retailers, creating new mountains of e-waste as they upgrade to an HD format.
Get ready for hordes of shoppers to hit Best Buy (nyse: BBY - news - people ) and other discount electronics retailers, creating new mountains of e-waste as they upgrade to an HD format.
Others that began as e-tailers-only are beginning to move into physical retailing, albeit in a lighter weight pop-up store format.
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While other e-readers lack a matching facility, if they support the ePub format their owners can still borrow ebooks from their local library if it supports the OverDrive system.
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He looked around and discovered a burgeoning industry of companies that help authors publish their own books in any format they like, from the traditional printed book to e-books and Amazon's Kindle, and now for the iPad.
Its e-commerce site, vipshop.com, operates on a flash-sale format, which limits the products available for purchase, a tactic aimed at driving higher sales from consumers who don't want to miss out on deals.
The common format would give Sony Reader owners much more choice about where they get their e-books from.
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