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Michel Roland-Guill

A Look at the Reading Habits of E-Reader Owners - WSJ.com - 0 views

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shared by Michel Roland-Guill on 26 Aug 10 - Cached
  • A study of 1,200 e-reader owners by Marketing and Research Resources Inc. found that 40% said they now read more than they did with print books. Of those surveyed, 58% said they read about the same as before while 2% said they read less than before.
  • Some 11 million Americans are expected to own at least one digital reading gadget by the end of September, estimates Forrester Research. U.S. e-book sales grew 183% in the first half of this year compared with the year-earlier period, according to the Association of American Publishers.
  • Amazon, the biggest seller of e-books, says its customers buy 3.3 times as many books after buying a Kindle
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  • because e-book gadgets are portable, people report they're reading more and at times when a book isn't normally an option: on a smartphone in the doctor's waiting room; through a Ziploc-bag-clad Kindle in a hot tub, or on a treadmill with a Sony Reader's fonts set to jumbo.
  • Mystery and thriller author Michael Connelly says he has about 30 e-books on his Kindle, Sony Reader and iPad
  • Compared with print, iPad readers were 6.2% slower and Kindle readers were 10.7% slower, though the difference between the iPad and Kindle results wasn't statistically significant
  • "Both devices give you a more relaxed feeling as opposed to a computer,"
  • 66% of libraries offered e-book loans, up from just 38% in 2005.
  • "A nightmare scenario for me would be if this device would ever beep at me while I'm reading."
  • men are bigger consumers of e-books than women by a narrow margin. Among e-book buyers, 52% were men compared with 48% for women—a reversal of print books, where women buy more. E-reader users also say that 52% of their e-books were ones they purchased, while 48% of their e-books were free because they were sample giveaways or out-of-copyright.
  • In creating the Kindle, Jeff Bezos, Amazon's chief executive, says he set out to develop technology that could encourage long-form reading, instead of just snippets.
  • Pages may be antiquated, but they're very helpful for making sure reading-club participants or students in a classroom are all on the same page. No page numbers also means there's no skipping ahead to sneak a peek at a page near the end of a book. Most e-readers have tried to replace page numbers by showing the percentage of the book read.
  • With an e-reader, readers can hold and turn pages with just one hand.
  • work in bed even when the lights are off
Gabriel Gallezot

Amazon Kindle : du reader à la tablette, quatre nouveaux modèles pour dominer... - 0 views

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shared by Gabriel Gallezot on 30 Sep 11 - No Cached
  • Pour passer outre cette limitation, Amazon stocke tous les contenus achetés par l’utilisateur dans son cloud, et gratuitement.
  • Les prix des différents Kindle et du Kindle Fire ne sont pas des prix de vente réels, mais leur coût est en partie financé par la publicité affichée à travers le système Amazon Local.
  • Tout d’abord, il faut noter que ces appareils ne sont toujours pas capables de lire des fichiers ePub
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  • Beaucoup de sociétés vont devoir adapter leur stratégie à ces nouveaux produits, qu’ils soient fabricants de tablettes Android ou d’ereaders, libraires ou distributeurs voire même éditeurs.
Michel Roland

Livres électroniques: quelle liseuse pour quel format? [ebook] | OnSoftware F... - 0 views

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shared by Michel Roland on 08 Sep 10 - No Cached
  • ePub est un format ouvert standardisé. Il a déjà été accepté par une grande partie des constructeurs, et se présente donc comme le format idéal pour vos livres numériques, car vous pourrez ainsi les lire sur de nombreux supports sans conversion. Le format en lui-même est un mini site internet (à base de XML) contenant le texte, les images, les informations de mise en page et de navigation. Seule limitation, une mise en page avancée (la bande dessinée ou les livres techniques) est difficile à mettre en place sur ce format plutôt dédié aux textes simples.
  • Attention, le Kindle d’Amazon ne supporte pas le format ePub.
  • Les liseuses modernes supportent toutes le PDF, mais les caractéristiques de son format (les données sont encapsulées, enfermées) n’offrent pas une grande flexibilité pour la lecture sur livre électronique.
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  • Notre conseil: Téléchargez vos livres au format ePub, dans la mesure du possible. Ce format est le plus universel et vous pourrez ainsi le lire sur presque n’importe quel support.
  • Je convertis mes ePub en Mobi via Calibre (Mac ou PC), qui fait très bien ce travail. Attention, les livres protégés par DRM ne pourront pas tous être convertis…
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