E-book

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…

buy your book, but now they are rolling out a subscription service where people get to read books based on the money they pay for their subscription. An author signs up for the subscription service, which means people with a Kindle Unlimited subscription can read their book without paying for it. Readers that subscribe can use their Kindle Unlimited all-you-can-read subscription, or read books via their Kindle Owners Lending Library (KOLL). Authors are not paid a commission when their book is…

Romance, horror, comedy, and mystery are all genres of books. Some more interesting than the other depending on the person. So how does one choose what they want to write about? Important factors have to considered, such as ideas, plots, climaxes, endings, character names, and their personalities. Writing a book is a lot harder than it seems when it comes down to it. But before stress engulfs the mind and writer 's block sets in before the first word, follow these few steps and it will make…

would read that book to me every night. Just as my mother did, my grandmother would read The Little Ballerina…

children’s books for many years. David Shannon has well over 20 books and each of them have their own uniqueness. Shannon is an amazing writer and illustrator. He knows how to draw a reader in and make them want to read the whole book. All of his books range from short books with one or two words on the page to many paragraphs throughout the pages. David knows how to suck the reader in and want to read all of his books. He makes them funny and interesting for all age levels throughout his…

In the article “An Ode to the User-Friendly Pencil”, Laing uses irony to illustrate that he prefers pencil more than computers because pencil has its own maintenance and simplicity. At the beginning of the article, Ling mentions the only modern technology he knows is “frozen waffles” (Laing 1). Frozen waffles are not considered to be a technology, it’s more like a common knowledge. The author uses a ironic way to show that he lacks the knowledge of advanced technology. Then the author talks…

For the first six years of my life, I had almost never read; not to my parents or even to myself. It wasn’t that I was unable to—I had to learned to read at a young age, and I did so fairly well—but the act of sitting for hours and flipping page after page after page. It seemed so monotonous. Then I entered first grade, where reading was mandatory. Within the first week of the school year, each student was given a small booklet of passages. Every day someone was called to the teacher’s desk…

The Al Gore’s Nobel peace prize speech story is much better than the video because of many reasons like for example you can picture everything in your mind. People wonder why read the speech and not just take your time reading the speech again and understand everything and not just listening to Al Gore talk without understanding everything he is talking about. Now I will explain why and how the story is better than the video. In Al Gore’s speech he says many large words that many people don't…

Nowadays, if you ask a number of people if they prefer ‘books or movies’, it’s most certain that, there will be an extensive collection of different answers. For many centuries books have been the biggest source of stories that human kind has, but now, things are changing. Today’s way to get introduced to a new story is, to watch a movie. The demand for movies is constantly increasing, so, why do some people still read books? Why do a countless number of people like to watch movies? There are…

The article paints a detailed picture – if somewhat unfavorable to Amazon – of the uneasy relationship, even dependency, between book publishers and the largest US online retailer. While they don’t like to admit it, their competencies are actually complementary. Editors and publishers have the experience to discover the best books and authors, whereas Amazon has the skills and technological expertise to sell them to the widest audience. If both parties cooperate with each other, they both get…