The Nook competes against Amazon's Kindle e-reader, as well as Apple and Google in the e-book market.
We see that Amazon is trying to cut publishers out and become a direct-to-e-book publisher themselves.
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The number of people cozying up to a good e-book is on the rise.
In an excerpt of his newest e-book, Ryan Avent laid out the case for density.
"Our wheels started turning two years prior, " said Ana Maria Allessi, the e-book's publisher.
The e-book business is led by newcomers such as Xlibris.com to Excel.com and Books On-line.
Sales had fallen and prospects for making any dent in the e-book market were not promising.
O. of HarperCollins, left in 2008 and established Open Road Integrated Media, an e-book venture.
The cost to produce an e-book version of an existing book is close to nothing.
In the end, she packaged a cross-section of these interviews into an e-book.
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Years later, Apple realized the potential of the e-book format with the tablet computer.
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All active e-book customers noticed the price jumps in Amazon, which was forced to comply.
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Consider the e-book as a new-technology channel of distribution for all kinds of branded content.
This is a point that is often missed in commentary about the rise of the e-book.
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Partial figures gathered by the International Digital Publishing Forum suggest e-book sales are doing well.
Search for bookmarks, underline keywords, or add notes to the e-book with the keyboard-interface Find feature.
The e-book user interface doesn't compare to black print on white paper, he added.
The overall boom in the e-book market will no doubt boost every company involved.
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We believe the lower hardware price will correlate with high e-book and video content attach rates.
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Though they are an improvement on a computer screen, e-book readers remain crude simulacra of books.
For years, Bradbury tried to prevent the publication of Fahrenheit 451 as an e-book.
Amazon still has a large share of the e-book market, but it's no longer 90%.
Many have predicted the eventual demise of physical books, as e-book readers and e-book demand soars.
In April, I spoke with many consumers about e-book pricing and their expectations.
Since 2004, the Virginmega.fr website has been offering MP3s, followed by film and e-book downloads.
Sony has introduced an e-book reader that uses electrophoretic materials to provide a high-resolution, high-contrast display.
His recent e-book "Pray: Notes on a Football Season, " was recently published by Penguin.
Critics of the agency model viewed it as an attempt to raise e-book prices.
Each player sees the e-book as a cornerstone of its larger platform strategy and business model.
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Publishers have largely resisted e-book library lending because they're concerned it might undermine their own e-book sales.
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