Comparison of e-book readers

and announcements. I was sitting beside my classmate, Javier, when Ms. Seitz, with a smile on her face, announced that every person in the class would need to pick a book to read while on Christmas break. I, along with many others, began sighing and worrying about finding the time to read it. Eight stacks of hardback and flimsy books were laid on a brown table on the left side of the room. I got up and slowly walked over to the table. I picked up The Interpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri. I…

“specializing in publishing and retail of books.” It took a “century” and “four decades” to get Barnes and Noble “into the bookselling giant that it is today.” Barnes and Noble sells “books, eBooks, magazines, toys, games, music, DVD and Blu-ray, and related products.”…

industry; thus, the book publishing industry largely affects the book printing economy. According to IBIS World, “the Canadian Book Publishing industry experienced moderate and consistent declines during the five years to 2016” (2016). Industry revenue is forecasted to decline at a rate of 4.4%. There has been a decrease in print book sales, but electronic books (e-books) have begun to increase; therefore, publishers are seeking to increase revenue through e-book sales. “20% of [Canadian]…

elementary came, I had become a better reader but I was still far behind my fellow classmates. I was embarrassed anytime we had to read during class because I was always…

hard-copy books are created, produced, distributed, and sold in retail stores. How does each player in the value chain make money? Each of these players in the value chain makes money in the book production process. Typically publishers offer a deal to the author. “In most cases, publishers will offer the author a contract where they get 10-15% royalties off each sale” (Collier). The more books that are sold the more money the publishers and authors earn. The publisher sends the book to the…

This is a major advancement in brand awareness. Another reason Amazon has been so successful is that they are ahead of their time. They know what’s coming out when and are above the rest in predicting upcoming trends. They were first to realize that e-commerce would eventually go mobile and this is when they came up with the Kindle and then Kindle Fire (Matthews, 2012). If Amazon wanted to stay in the game they had to produce tablets to keep up with…

availability of free eBook reader apps for smartphones has increased the demand for eBooks dramatically. You can make a significant amount of money writing eBooks and the fantastic thing about writing and selling eBooks is that once you create the eBook, it will keep earning for you! Now you might say to yourself: • I can’t write • I’m no author. • It’s too hard to write. • It will take forever to write. • No one will read it.…

students their text books. These academics do not have access to internet, or have a fancy high tech device. Some of these academics have special needs, or just simply get a migraine from staring at a monitor for too long. A person may shop around for colleges, like they do for a book in a book store. The only difference is that the book store does not tell you what to read or in what style you can read the book in. How is it that a student can spend thousands of dollars in books, not…

smart phones and tablets but avoid carrying bags with books or papers. To solve the problem of youth so that they can gain knowledge and move ahead in life, universities, authors and publishers provide them with a new emerging technology concept of e-books. Digital text is not a new concept. It was first introduced by Michael Hart in 1971. He started a project named Gutenberg with the goal of creating a widely available library of all kinds of books available in simple text form. In the mid of…

I thought my life was over when I was laid off from my job in the earlier part of 2011. That happened right after I found out I was pregnant with my son. It was devastating news to my husband since I was earning a huge bulk of our household income. For years, I researched how to make money from home because I didn 't want to go back to work once my son was born. Although I lost money in the process of staying off work, I experienced a certain peace of mind that I did not get from commuting to…