Sentences with phrase «borrowers out of the library»
Amazon gets the library borrowers out of the library site and onto the Amazon site in order to try to sell them more ebooks.
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Like the librarian in The Borrower whose honesty is tested when young boy hides out in the local library, many of these stories feature ordinary people beset by highly unusual circumstances.
Prior to 2011, e-book borrowers were able to check out several formats of e-books from their local libraries.
Prior to 2011, e-book borrowers were able to check out several formats of e-books from their local libraries — including ePub, the free, «universal» e-book standard set by the International Digital Publishing Forum (IDPF) since 2007, used by Kobo, Barnes & Noble, Sony, and Google Books.50 However, e-book borrowers could not check out books on Amazon's Kindle, the predominant e-reader at the time.51 In 2011, however, Amazon partnered with OverDrive, and in September 2011 library patrons who own Kindles were able to borrow Kindle books from public and school libraries in the United States.52
Pilots carried out into remote e-lending from libraries have found that e-books accounted for less than 5 % of library loans, with footfall to libraries and bookshops likely to drop as digital borrowers are less likely to visit branches.
According to Patron Profiles Fall 2012, 85 percent of ebook borrowers said that they had used their library to discover new writers or try out new genres.