Sentences with phrase «digital library lending service»

The second main element is an Overdrive shortcut, that takes you to the Sony website with a stripped down version of the digital library lending service.

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OverDrive, one of the nation's leading ebook lending platforms that supplies the ebook titles to school and public libraries that offer digital lending services, will once again be bringing its tractor - trailer bookmobile on the road, this time attending this weekend's National Book Festival in Washington,... [Read more...]

But with survey data from as recently as 2012 indicating that the majority of library patrons in the US didn't even know their public libraries could lend ebooks, despite the current numbers that 90 % of American libraries offer digital lending, there's an obvious disconnect between the services offered and patron adoption.

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The essence of this new service is providing a digital content distribution system for libraries and hardware to facilitate the lending process.

Addressing these concerns will require OverDrive and our library partners to cooperate to honor geographic and territorial rights for digital book lending, as well as to review and audit policies regarding an eBook borrower's relationship to the library (i.e. customer lives, works, attends school in service area, etc.).

Simplifying digital lending for libraries, this system offers an end - to - end, easy to implement and manage service.

OverDrive, one of the nation's leading ebook lending platforms that supplies the ebook titles to school and public libraries that offer digital lending services, will once again be bringing its tractor - trailer bookmobile on the road, this time attending this weekend's National Book Festival in Washington, D.C.

The first recommendation made was that libraries lending digital books to their members should be a service that is provided free of charge, and should be an essential function of the library service.

Libraries need to adopt a broad strategy to offer a digital lending service that allows anyone in the entire country to get a membership card and borrow ebooks.

«The 3M Cloud Library eBook lending service has simplified the discovery, browsing and check out process for eBooks so that more patrons can enjoy the digital content their library provides.»

I'd not previously realized this more nasty aspect of the publishers» attack on public libraries, requiring «OverDrive and our library partners to cooperate to honor geographic and territorial rights for digital book lending, as well as to review and audit policies regarding an eBook borrower's relationship to the library (i.e. customer lives, works, attends school in service area, etc.).»

Overdrive is the popular service that libraries employ to facilitate the digital lending of ebooks.

These days, libraries also carry audiobooks in both CD and digital formats, and usually partner with one or more ebook - lending services to offer ebooks as well.

Yes, Digital Editions fully supports Adobe Content Server DRM technology and is designed to work smoothly with existing library eBook lending services based on the Adobe Content Server infrastructure.

To combat this, many have built up their own eBook lending library using services such as Overdrive Digital Library to keep up with the times.

As we know, publishers need to sell books to remain viable, and many self - published authors do not have their books available for lending in libraries or even in digital subscription services like Kindle Unlimited or Scribd.

According to Library Journal, Budler refused to renew the libraries» contract with OverDrive when the distribution service attempted not only to significantly raise fees, but also to rewrite the terms of the contract in such a way that would prevent the libraries from ever transferring their holdings to a different provider.20 The State Library of Kansas then decided to transfer the libraries» existing digital content to a new e-book lending service from technology company 3M, although Budler said that they first had to secure individual publishers» permission to transfer the titles.

«Looking ahead, we are continuing to talk about our future plans for ebook and digital audiobook availability for library lending with a number of partners providing these services,» said Erica Glass, in a prepared statement.

The Kindle Lending Library effort will be powered by OverDrive, a digital - content provider that currently provides ebook services to those aforementioned 11,000 libraries, and which provides ebook library - lending services to owners of the Sony Reader, a petite device far less successful than Amazon's Kindle.