Effective immediately, public libraries across the United States can acquire for
their collections ebook editions of such beloved classic favorites and current bestsellers as The Great Gatsby, Steve Jobs, Doctor Sleep, Hard Choices, The Flamethrowers, The Light Between Oceans, The Perks of Being a Wallflower and the Mortal Instruments and Dork Diaries series.
Not exact matches
A
collection of free
ebook editions of significant works from the past.
''... librarians who know their community will be able to add valuable
editions to their
eBook collection using this resource.
Either way, the
ebook edition will eventually be joining my
collection too.
I actually own a few books from their Thesaurus
collection, in both physical and
ebook editions.
A small segment of the population (35 %) have also purchased the
ebook after they have read the free
edition from the library, to add it to their own personal
collection.
Out of each million
eBooks presented in The World
eBook Fair, I may guess that about 10 %, or 100,000, are more or less duplicates of an electronic
edition available in one of the other
collections.
Whether a reader starts by sending in a «shelfie» picture of a bookshelf or simply wants the
ebook edition of something in his or her
collection, the process of claiming an
ebook is the same.
And it supports print, according to the BitLit philosophy, by allowing print owners to enhance their
collections with
ebook editions at no or low cost.
For the past two years or so, I have been pointing out that while magazine digital
edition circulation has been stagnant (or even declining), and
eBooks sales have been either falling (if you believe the major publishers) or else growing more slowly (when you take into account Amazon and self - publishing), something else has also been going on: library systems are moving toward digital
collections.
Read an
ebook edition of The Book - Lovers» Anthology The Book - Lovers» Anthology, edited by Robert Maynard Leonard and published in 1911, is a great
collection of timeless thoughts about books and reading from the world's most famous writers (William Shakespeare, Jane Austen, George Gordon Byron, and Voltaire, among others).