The introduction of shorter format e-Books could create more upside to our estimate of e-Books revenues.
The feature will give users access to e-books from over 11, 000 U.S. libraries, and allow Amazon to further the idea of sharing e-books.
Pew asked people who don't already borrow library e-books whether they might avail themselves of library programs that would prepare them for using e-books.
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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.
Apple now offers about sixty thousand e-books, far fewer than Kindle does, and Amazon has launched an app that allows it to sell e-books on the iPad.
To match that, Sony has partnered with OverDrive, a distributor of e-books to libraries, to offer its customers easy access to the local library's collection of e-books.
As for e-book sales, Amazon did say earlier this summer that it sells 143 e-books for every 100 hardcover books (Of course, e-books are much cheaper than hardcover).
Brian Murray, the chief executive of HarperCollins, said in December that e-books enhanced with video, author interviews and social-networking applications could command higher retail prices for publishers than current e-books.
Amazon also reports that e-books now outsell hardcover books by 80%, and that it sold three times as many e-books in the last quarter as it sold in the same quarter last year.
The other "Big Six" publishers either refuse to allow libraries to lend out their e-books (at least their "front list" of current bestsellers), or they require libraries to periodically pay to re-license e-books.
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On the future of e-books, Mr Coates said that the price of e-books will come down and a lot more people will use them but it is still "a tiny fraction" of book market as a whole.
In February, the foundation launched its latest educational endeavor, a brainchild of Adriana's: a series of six e-books on influential Latin American artists (quotes and selected art from e-books at right) aimed at students and art fans alike.
He has written extensively about his success on Amazon with his e-books ( having sold more than 100, 000 e-books), and has clearly demonstrated with his pricing strategy that e-books can and should be priced lower than print books.
The complaint states that the companies accomplished their conspiracy by agreeing to stop the longstanding practice of selling e-books, as they long sold print books, on wholesale to bookstores, and leaving it to the bookstores to set the price at which they would sell the e-books to consumers.
Instead of purchasing e-books through a single online store to read only on compatible software (i.e. books bought from the Kindle Store can only be read on Kindle apps), Google lets consumers buy books either from its store or any other online vendor that sells books in EPUB and PDF formats, and read them on any device with a web browser.
Whispersync for Voice is a new service that syncs audio books with e-books.
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Fnac, which is the biggest bookseller in France as well as the biggest music chain, offers e-books and e-readers in partnership with the Kobo firm.
And traditional forms of reading, such as with books (even e-books), is something that boys at least do more rarely.
Pew also found that 12% of all Americans age 16 and older who read e-books have borrowed an e-book from a library in the past year -- and they're generally pretty happy with the experience.
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After swearing that I preferred paper books, I now read e-books on my Kindle and on my iPad.
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As consumer choice widens, some people want beautifully produced printed books, while others want enhanced e-books with video and other graphics.
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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Google Books lists nearly three million free e-books, which can be browsed by clicking on its Free Classics shelf and can be read on most devices, except for Kindles that aren't the KindleFire.
Macmillan is the smallest of the big-six publishers, which produce sixty per cent of all books sold in the U.S. Like its peers, Macmillan relies heavily on Amazon, which sells about fourteen per cent of its trade books and the vast majority of its e-books.
Serialisation is making a comeback: a firm called DailyLit divides e-books into small chunks for drip-feeding by e-mail.
But this obliges publishers to essentially run two businesses at once: a traditional publisher that sells bound books to stores and an electronic business that sells e-books online.
Amazon's position as a leading online retailer of books helped the company offer a wide selection of e-books to Kindle buyers that were competitively priced and easy to download.
According to Bowker's Books in Print database, which tracks print and e-books published and distributed in the United States, 164 such works have been written so far - they either directly address the event or use it as a peg to hang greater literary concerns about love, life and loss.
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