If the same book is available in paper and paperless form, Amazon says, forty per cent of its customers order the electronic version.
I'm often accused of being a Luddite -- mostly based on my fervent and affectionate clinging to several physical objects that are quickly becoming cultural artifacts: the ink pen, the paper book, and the vinyl record -- but those items haven't been the only 'evidence' my accusers have historically cited.
In a 1952 paper and 1959 book, Portfolio Selection, future Nobel laureate Harry Markowitz expounded MPT for the investment world.
Along with the mimeographs and binder paper are some lots that could sell in a more traditional book and manuscript auction.
Yet regulators and lawsuit-fearful auditors pressed banks and other financial firms to relentlessly knock down the book value of this subprime paper, even in cases where these obligations were being serviced in the payment of principal and interest.
They're planning to write a book or manual about their method, and they presented a paper, titled "Autism Spectrum: Emotional Regulation through Clarinet Lessons, " at last year's Virginia Counselors Association convention.
From here, you can select your chosen book cover color, choose a title and select your desired "paper" layout and hue.
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He published a paper on catastrophe theory in 1968, and his seminal book four years later.
The Samsung e-book displays reflect light naturally and deliver an appearance similar to that of printed paper, allowing people to read more naturally than they would with other backlit electronic paper devices.
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In this scenario, restaurateurs aren't married to proprietary hardware and, although they can use the Web to replace their paper reservation book, it doesn't require them to do so.
The Yellow Pages Association (also known as the Local Search Association), which is the trade organization for the phone book industry, counters that phone books are in fact made only from recycled paper and sawdust.
It won a prize and soon publishers approached him, asking if he wanted to turn his digital book into a paper one.
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For that, I had to create and add a digital note in the book (using the iPad's on-screen keyboard) or do the unthinkable use a pencil and paper.
For book publishing companies, e-readers present another way to sell their products and a way to get things to print faster, as an e-book can be distributed faster than a paper copy.
Like e-book pioneers in America, they point to the trend away from paper-based products as the technology for downloading and displaying text electronically gets cheaper, more convenient and easier on the eyes.
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