One of the first to report on the connection
between ebook borrowing and ebook purchasing was a report by Pew Research Center, the same organization that released a report yesterday on the digital reading habits of consumers ages sixteen and up.
Not exact matches
Publishers have gone so far as to limit the amount of times an
ebook can be
borrowed, set restrictions on a waiting period
between patrons, and have even decided to forgo
ebook lending altogether.
The new partnership
between OverDrive and NOOK Newsstand will enable readers to access popular magazines and newspapers in the same manner, and on the same website, as they discover and
borrow OverDrive
eBooks, audiobooks and streaming video.
Between them, they will let libraries, their patrons, and the publisher and author rights holders try out different models and approaches to
ebook borrowing.
In the ongoing tensions
between major publishing houses and public libraries over
ebook lending, patrons have lost out on the opportunity to
borrow bestselling digital titles but it may prove to be the reason readers turn to some smaller publishers» works instead of the Big Six in the coming year.
In the ongoing tensions
between major publishing houses and public libraries over
ebook lending, patrons have lost out on the opportunity to
borrow bestselling digital titles but it... [Read more...]
Borrowing ebooks for free from public libraries using OverDrive has always been a great way to legally read
ebooks for free, and now thanks to a new partnership
between Zinio and Recorded Books you can get digital copies of dozens of magazines for -LSB-...]
Despite the gap
between sales and «
borrowing» revenue, there are benefits to authors in having titles in
ebook subscription services as readers are far more likely to try out a writer if they're included in the subscription choice.
Another librarian commenter noted that «patrons get very frustrated by having to access
ebooks... across different platforms,» and that their patrons regularly make unfavorable comparisons
between library
ebook borrowing and the ease of buying and downloading
ebooks from Amazon.com.