Many libraries do a great job promoting immediate
access to eBooks from the main website... but then that's it.
For example, you can use the tool to create a form that blog visitors can fill out in order to
gain access to an ebook or worksheet you put together.
Many libraries have allowed
patrons access to eBooks for a number of years, and while most publishers welcome them, some do no.
Spend some time engaging your social media followers and giving them
easy access to your eBook during the holidays, when people are online, but still thinking about buying or selling a home.
Offers access to ebooks and thousands of downloadable audiobooks for a wide variety of devices and in the most popular formats.
Though you must finish the online portion of the course within that time frame, you will have perpetual
access to the ebook version of the PADI Adventures in Diving manual.
Learn more about this simple and effective way to catalog and provide
access to ebooks by local authors and build a community around indie writing.
Exclusive Content Give your app
users access to ebooks and exclusive content to encourage them to download and use your app.
The best way to ensure
continued access to your ebooks — regardless of your chosen platform — is to save them onto a computer and open them out for general usage.
Since 2008, that system has allowed public library patrons
access to ebooks no matter which of the 15 branches they belong to.
At the same time publishers are denying libraries fair and
reasonable access to ebooks, many indie ebook authors are starting to turn their backs on publishers.
Once a reader buys the book, they immediately have
access to the ebook in their browser and begin reading right away.
Half of children age 9 - 17 say they would read more books for fun if they had
greater access to ebooks — a 50 % increase since 2010.
As we celebrate the 55th annual National Library Week, it is a particularly fortuitous time for the publisher to join its Big Six colleagues by providing
access to ebooks through our nation's libraries.
Launched in 2000, Microsoft Reader offered
access to eBooks on any Windows - based device - including PDAs and smartphones - in the company's own.
There is one major disadvantage — you won't
get access to your ebooks if you can't access your Galaxy Tab, and you'll have to make a backup of all the files before buying the next
But it was when I blogged about unlimited
access to ebooks with readers, and heard what kind of experience those readers were having with KU, that I saw why it was important for me to only make my works available at top - notch retailers.
Freading offers library patrons
unlimited access to all ebooks in its catalog in a manner somewhat similar to Library Ideas» downloadable MP3 music service, Freegal.
As outlined in the DCWG report «Ebook Business Models for Public Libraries» (PDF file), libraries benefit from business models that include
access to all ebook titles, enduring rights and metadata integration capabilities (see also the recently released DCWG «Business Model Scorecard» report in PDF format on ebook contract variables for libraries).
One library only pursued digital lending after the numerous requests it received from patrons, and stated that in the three months they've offered this type of 24 -
hour access to ebooks, patrons have borrowed more than four hundred titles of the 3,400 - book catalog.
While we have observed numerous indicators over the past two years that have shown the agency model's lethal effect on the Defendants» market share, we also have these remarks from the single individual who probably has more
access to ebook sales and pricing data than anyone else in the world, in a June 2010 Fortune interview with Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos:
The study was based on «the impact
of access to an ebooks platform on pupils» reading motivation and skills over the academic year 2014 - 15.»
If a customer wants to purchase a personal copy of the title — perhaps because the waiting list is too long, or they want
permanent access to the eBook — they will simply click «Buy it Now» and be taken to Kobo to purchase the title.
It's taken nearly four years, but the time has finally come for the Digital Public Library of America — a nonprofit, grassroots organization aimed at
better access to ebooks for all readers — to launch its pilot program.
The Pew Internet and American Life Group released the findings of a study today that clearly demonstrated consumers» wishes to enjoy more
widespread access to ebooks from their local public libraries.
Unfortunately, a report that was released earlier this year showed that one way publishers are looking into protecting authors is to ban off - site or remote ebook lending, thereby requiring patrons to come into their local libraries in order to borrow ebooks, essentially destroying one of the key advantages to e-reading, namely, the portability and
anywhere access to ebooks.
One of the polarizing issues in the U.S. ebook market right now is the conflict over public
library access to ebook titles for lending, but we may be able to take a lesson from Libranda's new partnership with OverDrive to afford access to new and bestselling ebook titles to library patrons in Spain.
Clifford Lynch, executive director of the Coalition for Networked Information, called the library ebook situation «appalling,» explaining that denying libraries
unfettered access to ebooks threatens the library mission to «preserve cultural heritage, provide accommodation for people with disabilities, and protect individual privacy,» according to the report.
However, the survey found that, while the number of people visiting a physical library location may have dropped by a few percentage point, library website use is up, possibly due to
increased access to ebook lending to personal devices and library subscriptions to streaming videos, music, and research tools.