Sentences with phrase «checkout ebooks from the library»
Overdrive and Penguin have announced residents of the US or Canada can now checkout eBooks from the library and have them sent directly to a Kindle, without the need of a USB.
https://goodereader.com/ Not exact matches
From licensing agreements over how many ebook checkouts a single library can use to how to put audio content on patrons» personal devices, the options have been not only limited, they've been somewhat cost prohibitive.
It's a lot different than getting ebooks from libraries where you can only checkout so many at one time, and then they automatically expire after 2 - 3 weeks.
One of the biggest draws and selling points of Adobe DRM - supporting ereaders, especially the Sony Readers, is that you can checkout ebooks for free from your local library to read on them.
OverDrive, the leading eBook, audiobook, music and video distributor for schools and libraries, announced today that six standalone partner libraries have surpassed 1 million digital checkouts from their OverDrive collection in 2013.
The OverDrive integration will allow for the checkout of ebooks from within Millennium or Sierra without jumping to the OverDrive interface; the June rollout of Decision Center, the company's new data - driven collection management tool that will compete with collectionHQ's product; a wave of hiring backed by the new investors, which has already increased the staff by 20 so far this year and will add another 40 by the end of the year (mostly in development and support), according to Massana, pushing the company past 400 employees; the creation of five «library relations managers» who serve as customer advocates at III; the complete integration of SkyRiver Technology Solutions into III along with the termination of SkyRiver's suit against OCLC on March 4.
It began with a February 24 email (PDF file) from OverDrive CEO Steve Potash alerting customers that «Publishers are expressing concern and debating their digital future where a single eBook license to a library may never expire, never wear out, and never need replacement» and that one firm (which turned out to be HarperCollins) had decided to solve the problem it perceived by establishing «a checkout limit for each eBook licensed.»