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Peter Suciu for redOrbit.com – Your Universe Online Online retailer Amazon has led the way in getting people to transition from reading “paper” books to e-books on its Kindle and other tablet devices, and now the company may be trying to...
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With more people turning to e-reading, it appears that there is going to be a lot more demand for speed reading tutorials as well. As software company eReflect notes, a recent study concluded that ebook readers are definitely more eager to finish their current text and start reading new material. New York City, NY (PRWEB) May 19, 2013 The developers at eReflect, the software company behind 7 Speed Reading, are pleased to announce that a study by the Pew Research Center has recently found...
Following the wild success of Note Anytime for Apple, Windows and Android devices, MetaMoJi announced today the game changing note taker and sketching tool will support Kindle Fire next. Palo Alto, CA (PRWEB) May 16, 2013 Mobile users around the world have been buzzing about the latest revolution in free note takers since the introduction of Note Anytime as a universal cross-platform app last fall. With the recent announcement of Android support and now Note Anytime for Amazon’s Kindle...
CADLearning offers free e-book covering the new and enhanced features for Autodesk Revit Architecture 2014. The title includes embedded tutorials and training with exercise files, interactive simulations and assessments at http://www.cadlearning.com/revit-2014-new-features Bedford, NH (PRWEB) May 16, 2013 4D Technologies, Autodesk Authorized Publisher and maker of the industry-leading CADLearning products for Autodesk software, released today a new CADLearning eBook Series title for...
Certain, Inc. has released a complimentary e-book for marketing and event professionals. The downloadable e-book is a how-to-guide on improving the attendee experience and generating more successful events with personalization. San Francisco, CA (PRWEB) May 15, 2013 Certain, Inc., the leading provider of enterprise event management software, has released its latest resource for marketing and event professionals, An Introduction to Personalized Event Experiences. The 15 page e-book...
Plans move forward to combine EBL and ebrary into a single, best-of-breed e-book platform ANN ARBOR, Mich., May 14, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- ProQuest, an information company central to global research, has completed its acquisition of Ebook Library (EBL), significantly expanding its e-book delivery and aggregation capabilities with libraries worldwide. The acquisition supports ProQuest's overall goal of enhancing the research experience through seamless discovery of content across...
As it turns out, the rise in gadgets designed or used as ebook readers has had a significant effect on peoples' reading habits. Consequently, speed reading becomes even more important as well, and the 7 Speed Reading development team at eReflect welcomes the results of studies showing the correlation between the two. New York City, NY (PRWEB) May 13, 2013 The campaign to read has been on an upswing even more in the past couple of years, especially with the advent of ebook reading...
A national World War II magazine today announced the release of a new Kindle Fire app that lets users read the publication on all versions of the device, with live links, searchable text, and pinch enlargement of photos. HARRISBURG, PENNSYLVANIA (PRWEB) May 13, 2013 AMERICA IN WWII—a national magazine about the American experience in the Second World War—today announced the launch of a new Kindle Fire app. The new application lets users read the publication on all Kindle Fire...
iGear’s Custom iPad Case has earned the reputation of being the very best in the industry, featuring a hard-shell case printed with customer uploaded artwork, full-body protection, lightweight slim design, smart cover auto wake/sleep, and multiple viewing angles. For a limited time only, the company is making the iPad Custom Case available at a discounted price of only $59 each. Chicago, IL (PRWEB) May 13, 2013 Through a recent survey, iGearUnlimited.com asked customers for the features...
This year’s theme, Advancing Publishing in a Digital World, has already drawn an enormous crowd, with seats expected to sell out soon. New York, NY (PRWEB) May 13, 2013 From May 29-30, 2013, the best minds in digital publishing will convene in the Javits Center in New York City for the highly-anticipated, perennially sold-out IDPF Digital Book 2013 conference. This year’s theme, Advancing Publishing in a Digital World, has already drawn an enormous crowd, with seats expected to sell...
Samuel French, the largest eBook library in theatrical publishing, has partnered with EditionGuard to securely deliver eBooks and ePlays to the theatrical community with Adobe DRM. New York, NY (PRWEB) May 13, 2013 EditionGuard is proud to announce that they have been selected by Samuel French, the largest theatrical eBook and ePlay distributor, to securely deliver eBooks and ePlays to their customers. Founded in 1830, Samuel French has been serving the theatrical community for nearly two...
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The Cybook Opus is an e-book reader produced by Bookeen from France, released on July 27, 2009. The operating system for the Opus is Linux with an open source firmware. In June 2010, Bookeen published and improved firmware with a one-second mode which allows the device to be turned on and off in one second. It also keeps the last page read open and the user does not have to reboot each time. There is no keyboard and it does not have a dictionary or bookmarks. There is no internet access...
The Cybook Gen3 is an e-Reader designed for reading e-books, e-news, and for listening to audio books or MP3 music. It was produced by Bookeen, a French company, and released on October 29, 2007. The display is a six-inch E-Ink screen using 166 dpi, black and white, 2-bit grayscale and on the gold edition 8-bit grayscale was used. The screen is readable under sunlight and only uses the battery for turning pages, giving it 8,000 page flips of battery life. The Gen3 uses a 200MHz CPU;...
The Kobo Touch is an eReader device produced by Kobo Inc., from China, revealed on May 23, 2011, and released in the U.S. on June 10, 2011. It is the third generation eReader from Kobo, and contained improvements from the previous versions. The Kobo Touch included 15 free previews of select books instead of 100 public domain books that were included on the previous versions. Other improvements were an E Ink pearl screen, faster CPU, and it was smaller and lighter. The display is a six-inch...
The Kindle Fire HD is the second generation of Amazon’s Kindle Fire. It comes in three versions, the 7 inch, and the 8.9 inch touch screens, and a 4G version. They were released on September 14, 2012 in the 7-inch, November 16, 2012 in the 8.9-inch, and a 8.9-inch 4G enabled version released on November 18, 2012. The 7-inch and the 8.9-inch have 16 GB or 32 GB of internal storage and the 8.9-inch 4G LTE has 32 GB or 64 GB of storage. It has a front facing camera for photo capture, and...
The Kindle Fire is a mini tablet computer that was released in the United States on November 15, 2011. On September 7, 2012, updates became available to areas where the Amazon website is accessible. The Kindle Fire has a color seven-inch multi-touch touchscreen; it can be used to stream movies and TV shows, read Kindle e-books, and includes access to the Amazon Appstore. Amazon’s tactic for offering the Kindle Fire at such a low cost, was to make their profits from the sale of the...
