Sentences with phrase «about this lending library»

Makinson said Penguin would continue to talk with Amazon about the lending library concept, but that the issue was as much about the risk of piracy as pricing.

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We have a lending library of books about breastfeeding, childbirth, and parenting.

One great thing about ebooks is that fact that many public libraries around the world support ebook lending for free.

This is partly due to tight budgets but also stems from concerns by publishers and authors about how — indeed whether — libraries should lend digital editions of their books.

I was in Brisbane last week talking to Queensland librarians about ebook lending in public libraries and why HarperCollins wasn't really the bad guy in this conversation.

About the only two arguments I've heard for piracy being good are anecdotes from authors who seem to mistake correlation with causality (sales increased by 100 % since being pirated), and those comparing it to book lending via libraries or in book clubs.

3M's Library System loves to show up at a packed conference and show off something new and innovative for the world of library ebook lending, such as at last year's ALA Conference when all the buzz was about the dedicated e-reader designed specifically to be checked out from local public libraries.

At yesterday's IDPF event, BiblioBoard's Mitchell Davis sat down with Good eReader to talk about the new feature that was just launched with Library Journal that will offer libraries a way to feel confident about including self - published ebooks in their lending catalogs.

3M Cloud Library was set up in the BEA Digital Zone to talk about its library lending offerings, but the real news from 3M lately was the recent partnership with Smashwords that puts the ebook distributor's titles in the catalog for libraries to choose from.

Let's talk about a concept that keeps coming up in the conversation about ebook lending in libraries.

For all the time I spend online, somehow I missed hearing about e-book lending libraries.

The publishers who are currently not participating in the library ebook market all seem to be worrying about the lack of «friction» in the library ebook lending transaction as far as the patrons are concerned.

SESNOSo as I was getting ready to come over here this morning and do this program, I was talking to my wife about this and she said, you know, I didn't know libraries lend e-books.

Even in the library world, in spite of all the recent discussion about how the Big 6 are deciding whether and how to lend ebooks to libraries, most people can't.

The «Big 6» publishers are increasingly skittish about providing ebooks for public libraries to lend.

When Coates spoke to GoodeReader in February about this lending model, those titles were reported to be coming from all of the Big Six publishers, something that public libraries have not been able to achieve for ebook lending.

We bantered about the new green space and the rise of digital ebooks and how a large Canadian library copes with lending to a large population.

About 40 library regions have signed up with OverDrive, the US service provider that currently leads the market in public library lending.

When Publishing Perspectives asks Tellander about his view on how his services could impact audiobook lending services from public libraries, he concedes that library availability is a double - edged sword to services like Storytel.

The patrons who responded to our online questionnaire generally learned about e-book lending at their library either at their library's physical branch or through direct online communication from the library.

We talk about Overdrive and their new Test Drive tablets they are offering to libraries for their patrons to use or lend out.

HarperCollins, for example, recently capped its lending program at 26 loans, a limit many libraries and librarians were incensed about.

This is a great interview and we talk about how digital library lending has changed the way people access books and how libraries themselves have adapted to it.

This is a great show if you want to know everything about ILS systems, digital library ebook lending, and more!

The patrons who participated in our online panel generally said they had learned about e-book lending at either their library's physical branch or through direct online communication from the library.

Today we're talking about e-books and the impact they're having on libraries and E-book lending from libraries.

I defer to people who are more knowledgeable about Section 108 of the copyright law, but my view on this is that you could change 108 to give libraries the rights to do protected digital lending, but it would be much harder in practice than getting an exemption to the anti-hacking law for this purpose.

On several occasions, we ended up talking about how libraries lend ebooks and how that can affect sales, not unlike the discussions we had with some publishers.

In the library, what about an e-book pricing model that lets you lend 25 copies for the first few months, retiring licenses as demand wanes, until you only have one or two copies for circulation at the end of the first year?

There has been a lot of tension about ebook lending since Big Six publisher Harper Collins limited libraries to only 26 check - outs of their titles.

Despite doubts that some publishers and distributors have about DRM for retail e-books, DRM for library e-book lending is here to stay for the foreseeable future.

The summer initiative worked well for the libraries, with about 70 % of UK libraries offering some form of ebook lending, even if the catalog of titles is sadly limited.

Admittedly, Raphael had some good things to say about how the publishers are at least willing to listen to the concerns coming from the public libraries and are even interested in continuing the dialog to resolve their own concerns, fears that Raphael even says are not just lip service or an effort to not cooperate with ebook lending.

Amazon would I think be thrilled if public libraries failed in lending ebooks, not because they're worried about theft (OverDrive, ebrary et al, protect their ebooks with more robust DRM than Amazon does).

Deb recently chatted about books for the Sydney Mechanics» School of Arts, the oldest lending library in Australia.

Unless I really, really like a book and want to read it several times (which rarely happens) I don't care about owning it so library lending works great for me.

It's not quite like your local library's lending power, but it is pretty awesome if you'd like to try out a book but are not so sure about paying for it yet.

About the ebooks, the library can only lend one ebook to one person at one time, just like a print book.

There's a lot to discuss about the announcement, including concerns about patron privacy, Amazon's DRM policies, and whether and how this will benefit libraries in the long run (in the short run, it at least means that librarians don't have to answer the question of why they can't lend books to patrons» Kindles).

Responding to a question about why some publishers don't make ebooks available to libraries, Jeremy Greenfield, editorial director of Digital Book World, said they are worried that lending will result in reduced sales.

As The Huffington Post notes, the new policy further angers retailers, publishers and politicians who are already upset about the company's sales tax policies and over the Amazon Kindle lending library.

For an average 2 - week lending term, libraries would get a full year of lending for about US$ 10 - 20, based on typical ebook prices — that's about 40 - 80 cents a loan.

I will be honest, I've been waiting for some publisher to start backing out of library programs using the same argument they have about not allowing e-book lending — that allowing someone to walk into a library and borrow a book is costing the publisher sales.

I've written several times about how libraries face increasing difficulties in lending e-books.

When Penguin announced last week that it was disabling library ebook lending on the Kindle and pulling its latest ebook titles from all library lending platforms, libraries and readers took the hit, but to some observers they were collateral damage in a fight between publishers and Amazon about the control of publishers» titles... Indeed, Penguin's move suggests that the publishing industry's long - simmering concern over Amazon's dominant position and its aggressive new ventures in the ebook market are coming to a boil.

After OverDrive's announcement that Penguin had decided to restore access to older titles for library lending via Kindle, Penguin released a statement that this will only be in effect through the end of the year, unless concerns about unnamed security issues are resolved (see last line)

All in all, library e-book lending isn't anything like the «free e-books forever» ideal many people might have in their head when thinking about the feature.

Before going free, I was selling about 50 copies a month, plus in December I had about 10 borrows in the Kindle lending «library».

Well, I was going to write about Amazon's new Kindle lending library going live, but I haven't had time to research the details yet.

So, let's talk about the Amazon lending library.