Sentence examples for e-books from high-quality English sources.

• E-books had undeniable advantages for publishers.

• It also let individuals publish their own e-books.

• The growth rate of e-books has recently slowed in many markets, including America and Britain.

• The publishers, who had worried that Amazon was charging too little for e-books, settled and were required to negotiate new deals with Amazon and other retailers.

• Many e-books are priced at $14.99; some reach $19.99.

• They said they would share some consumer data about buying e-books.

• (The same applies to e-books in a public or institutional library).

• By 2010 the rift between book publishers and Amazon.com over the price of e-books had grown.

Use e-books in a sentence.

• Best of all, e-books take up no room in my house next to my lamentably unread physical books.

• If cheaper e-books draw people away from hardcovers, that could hurt these authors financially.

• Tim O’Reilly, the e-books publisher, has found that the lower the price the more books he sells.

• Australia uses e-books and tablets that allow prisoners to complete distance learning in their cells.

• Many shops have started to offer free internet access to keep customers there longer and to enable them to download e-books.

• Amazon began a new chapter in its dispute with Hachette by offering to let the publisher’s authors keep all the revenue from their e-books.

• The internet enables people to sell their e-books and print books without the hassle of directing people to their homes or trying to get bookstores to display them.

• However, in the aftermath of the dot-com crash of 2000–2002, e-books did not find wide acceptance by the publishing industry, and investment in e-reading devices and e-book technologies subsided.

e-books sentence examples

• But the lawsuit — similar to previous investigations by lawmakers in the US and European Union — accused Amazon of using MFNs to instead prevent publishers from selling their e-books to customers at a lower price on websites that competed with Amazon.

• But with Amazon revealing last week that it sold more e-books than hardbacks in its latest quarter, authors will care increasingly about their cut from e-books than from print—and their market power will surely prevail.

• David Elliott, restructuring and insolvency partner at Moore Stephens, said: “The fall in the value of sales for physical books is larger than the growth of e-books, and this is a worrying trend for publishers that are still dependent on paper for their profits.”

• Among the categories not actively tracked at this time are: perennial sellers, required classroom reading, textbooks, reference and test preparation guides, e-books available exclusively from a single vendor, journals, workbooks, calorie counters, shopping guides, periodicals and crossword puzzles.