Sentences with phrase «book lent up»

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And while loan demand slowed, BNP Paribas grew its overall loan book by 1.5 % during 2012, with lending to SMEs up by 2.7 %.

True, if it were just one book, one writing, but whne yo have over 25,000 writings outside of the Bible backing up the Bible then it tends to lend credibility.

Many of my friends came to lend their support for my first book signing as well as Step Up, including authors Donna Sozio,?

If you're feeling generous, you can use the NookColor's LendMe feature to «loan» books to friends for up to 14 days (although each book can be lent to only one person — period).

The British government had formed a task force earlier this year to investigate the potential impact of ebook lending in order to consider mandating lending; the task force was made up of voices from various sectors in the book industry, but the news led to concerns that libraries would possibly suffer in an era of all - digital lending adoption.

Essentially, the leadership finally expressed that it was fed up with the current upheaval in public library ebook lending, with different members of the Big Six publishing houses setting their own rules — from no lending of our new titles, to a book can only be borrowed a specific number of times, to no lending of any of our titles at all — it was chaos for the libraries and disappointment for their patrons.

(I'm always wary of lending out a book that I've marked up, for fear of what my notes might inadvertently reveal.)

A library lends out books, but the author can sign up for a program that actually compensates them (I'm blanking on the name), plus the library frequently needs to replace copies.

For example, a writer who grew up in Ireland might have personal experience that lends itself to a book set during the time of — say, the Irish potato famine.

Chatfield goes on to suggest that selling books DRM free, without the use restrictions that most eBooks presently have, opens up «the tantalizing possibility of helping digital reading preserve all the advantages of its weightless, infinitely capacious medium while regaining some of the rich possibilities of physical books — and specifically those communities of lending, discussion, sharing and recommendation that are the traditional lifeblood of reading.»

You can lend books for up to two weeks to anyone you want.

The main focus of the 25 interactive panels was the digital bookselling supply chain, start - ups, self - publishing, mobile devices, and the future of bookselling and book - lending, CONTEC Frankfurt provided a rich programe for all attendees.

Both companies allow purchased books to be lent out one time per customer, for up to two weeks, and then the book is unable to be loaned out ever again.

eBook lending is a relatively new phenomenon and basically allows a user to lend out a purchased book for up to 14 days.

It's always a sad moment because that's when your friend looks up at you with wide, eager eyes and asks «So what did you think of my favorite book in the whole universe, the one I kindly lent you for months on end, depriving myself and other readers of its powerful words so you could enjoy them?»

With the abundance of self - publishing opportunities available to authors now, and even opportunities like library distribution thanks to this morning's announcement that Smashwords and OverDrive are pairing up on ebook lending, the real stand out will be in the ways that companies can offer book promotion to their clients.

Many users are obviously gravitating towards Amazon Prime and the book lending sites are not seeing enough new blood being added to make up for all the best books expiring off their system.

Hundreds of authors have signed up to lend their support, not in terms of publicity or book signings, but just by volunteering on what will hopefully prove to be a profitable day for these small business owners.

Eligible books — those marked as Lending Enabled — can be lent for up to 14 days.

Amazon will increase the KDP Select program fund to catch up with the increase of demand in book lending.

So why would they get up in arms about a site lending one book at a time?

All the other services offered by B&N are offered in this device too: the lovely book lending and sharing apps, for instance, and of course the standard features like highlighting, adding notes and looking up meanings on Webster's.

Select digital book titles are flagged lending enabled and are allowed to be loaned out one time, for up to two weeks.

The nook selection is awful, and I can't even add my own lend me books because they don't come up on the search.

Fling is a free sign - up and they recommend you choose an email address specifically for lending books so your real email is not floating around.

eBook lending is a way that you can lend books to friends for up to 14 days, but only once.

Books can only be lent out once and many websites have sprung up to connect users with each other.

The book will show up in your friend's «Lend Me» section which now can be seen occupying the top left corner.

Amazon and Barnes and Noble both allow customers who buy select books to lend them out up to two weeks.

Picture books just don't lend themselves to the format, and if the goal is to read with a child, cuddling up with the kid on your lap to read from an ereader while looking at the pictures together just doesn't work yet.

I managed to earn one just for signing up and lending my first book.

By the time i got the stupid thing working, it said my time for lending was up and the book was no longer available.

They also gained a tremendous amount of momentum when Amazon unveiled the ability for Kindle owners to lend books to their friends for up to two weeks.

Libraries all over the world who lend books out digitally are up in arms and many are calling for a boycott of all Harpercollins Publishing books.

While romance novels tend to be on the «quick and easy» thin side of book length, other genres with titles like the Game of Thrones series or the Harry Potter books lend themselves to more wordiness and are therefore catching up to romance in terms of ebook sales thanks to Baddeley's theory.

With a full line - up of industry experts covering everything from marketing, digital standards, library lending, social media promotion, and more, this event is a catch - all for anyone remotely involved in the book industry.

Many libraries when you sign up for a book that is lent out will send you a link to download it when it becomes available.

Not all books are lendable — it is up to the publisher or rights holder to determine which titles are eligible for lending.

It really opens up a whole new world and though the original investment is $ 79.00, once you own a Kindle, downloading newspapers alone is much cheaper than buying the paper variety and you can borrow Kindle books from your local library, Amazon's lending llibrary and there are tons of really good free Kindle books to be had too, so it really isn't expensive in the long run.

Let's see if newspapers and the big blogs keep drumming up a Nook LendMe feature that is a hollow shell of what actual lending of books is.

As the e-reader and tablet wars heat up, Amazon.com Inc. is launching a digital - book lending library that will be available only to owners of its Kindle and Kindle Fire devices who are also subscribers to its Amazon Prime program.

While you can theoretically lend a print book as often as you want, e-book lending has some nice advantages as well: you don't have to physically meet up or mail the e-book, and you get it back automatically, without having to bug your friend, and without any of the pages dog - earned or damaged.

Making books available for library lending is an obligation which comes with the rights granted under copyright law, and is limited in very important ways which mean that it has relatively little effect on authors» earning power, and for the vast majority of them it makes up a very small proportion of their total income, so the zero - sum effect doesn't really kick in.

As part of the KDP Select Program, where books become available to borrow as part of the Kindle library lending program, authors / publishers can also set the book price for free for up to 5 days out of every 90.

You never have to worry about all this 14 - day - limit and lend - once nonsense and, unlike paper books, a book can be read on up to 6 devices at the same time.

The minute you open up the door to «book lending» you open up the door to book resale / rentals.

Many of the software quirks don't really match up to the Netflix - style Kindle Unlimited or the free Kindle lending library services you get with Amazon's book readers.

The company explains that by some models, publishers can charge libraries for lending an ebook to an individual either since the time of the borrowing or since the reader actually picks up the book and reads it.

Via the API, Lendle could figure out which books were lendable or not (Amazon leaves this decision up to the publishers, and users can only lend a book for 14 days to other users).

Guest Expert: Laura Pepper As part of the KDP Select Program, where books become available to borrow as part of the Kindle library lending program, authors / publishers can also set the book price for free for up to 5 days out of every 90.