Sentences with phrase «digital library sales»

Skip is also a motivating leader with insightful perspectives on how to increase our digital library sales, together with our physical titles, in this marketplace.»

In a brief statement, Random House officials said that for now the company was «maintaining its current policy regarding digital library sales,» but added it is «actively reviewing» that position.

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PR WEB — June 23 — Virtual Greats, a virtual goods and sales distribution system, and Viximo, which provides content, analytics, and virtual currency solutions to publishers (social networks, dating sites, gaming sites, etc) and content creators (brands, media, digital artists), today announced a partnership deal providing publishers with turnkey virtual goods solutions, including an unrivalled library of branded entertainment, sports and fashion content.

e-Sentral is a stand alone digital book platform which ranges from authoring tool to end user application and supply ebooks via multiple sales channel including libraries in South East Asia.

Much like the headache of licensing ebooks to libraries stateside, Japanese patrons and librarians have been frustrated by the lack of bestselling and new release content available for digital lending, for many of the same reasons that publishers in the US have balked at making their entire catalogs available to libraries, namely fears that print sales will decline.

Earlier this year, digital content distributor OverDrive partnered with publisher Sourcebooks in an experiment aimed at establishing concrete data on how readers respond in terms of book borrows and book sales to digital titles they check out from their libraries.

The large argument at the time was that if ebooks were given away for free at the library, it would cannibalize the physical and digital sales.

PublishDrive is a Hungarian company that will publish your eBook in more than 400 stores including Apple iBooks, Google Play Books, Kindle, Scribd, Barnes & Noble, plus 240k digital libraries (schools, universities, public libraries) for 10 % after net sales.

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While Pottermore.com will be the exclusive sales location for the entire digital Harry Potter series, Pottermore and Google confirmed that they have joined up to allow consumers to store their Potter ebooks in their cloud - based Google Books libraries.

Infinity Publishing will be charging hopeful authors about $ 200 to self - publish their own titles, for sale through Kobo Books, and other digital libraries.

60 different libraries now have the ability to allow readers to easily discover titles from the digital media catalog and instantly link to online booksellers offering the title for sale.

We've often heard from publicists, digital and library marketers, sales reps, and even authors that they'd like to broaden the number of people who can preview their content before it's published, and that they'd like to know with more certainty the influence and reach of those broader communities.

«Our library sales for digital audio are up nearly 35 % over 2014, we're offering more and more titles on audio, and we're not alone in that.

Michael Bills, the Sales Director, Digital Products said «We have well over 2,000 libraries that do business with us now and this is up from about 1,200 in 2014.

HC CEO Brian Murray said during a conference call that despite the fact that eBook sales fell for the full year, sales of digital audio had solid gains and HC increased its digital business with libraries.

He went on to say «We continue to sign new supplier agreements, and broke the 1 million mark for e-Books available for library sale this year, along with an additional 50,000 digital audiobook titles.

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In response to the disruption that ensued — specifically for library ebook sales and lending — ALA established the a working group on libraries and digital issues (now known as the Digital Content Working Group, or DCWG) to help navigate the Association... Continue reading What's in Store for digital issues (now known as the Digital Content Working Group, or DCWG) to help navigate the Association... Continue reading What's in Store for Digital Content Working Group, or DCWG) to help navigate the Association... Continue reading What's in Store for Ebooks?

Responding to a question about why some publishers don't make ebooks available to libraries, Jeremy Greenfield, editorial director of Digital Book World, said they are worried that lending will result in reduced sales.

And, in my experience, not even close, especially if a chunk of your sales went to the comic book market, or to libraries, or digital.

Libraries know they need digital wares if they are to remain relevant, but many publishers are too wary of piracy and lost sales to co-operate.

Even if libraries can somehow get the changes in the law that I describe here pushed through, the forces against Digital First Sale are very strong.

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.

As the conference wound its way to the final panel, the ominously named «Print Vs. Digital - Â War, Co-Existence or Collaboration,» the final group of commentator who ranged from retail and library players to executives focused on sales and the digital space seemed to agree on oneDigital - Â War, Co-Existence or Collaboration,» the final group of commentator who ranged from retail and library players to executives focused on sales and the digital space seemed to agree on onedigital space seemed to agree on one point.

There's a good argument to made that Microsoft should do just that: Barnes & Noble still claims it has one of the largest digital content libraries in the world, and sales in that area were actually up 6.8 percent last quarter.

The coupling of these four points, along with B&T's history in the library market, represents a «sweet spot,» according to Michael Bills, the company's director of sales, digital products, and he said the company is aiming high.

Leaders from top library companies weighed in on this issue during an hour - long discussion held before a gathering of publishers, booksellers, and librarians, aiming to debunk lingering misunderstandings about ways in which libraries affect retail sales of ebooks and digital content, and to inform publishers of new tools that have been developed to market, manage, and even sell digital content through libraries.

Regarding libraries, a lot of them are also now offering digital books rentals as well as sales.

Besides being worried about Amazon's power in the digital market, publishers have long been concerned that allowing library patrons to download e-books might harm sales.

Many publishers are worried about the effect that unlimited library lending of e-books will have on sales of digital titles and about piracy of digital material.

A fifth publisher, HarperCollins, limits library lending to 26 check - outs per e-book, after which libraries may repurchase the title to continue lending it.15 The firm recently ended its relationship with OverDrive and is testing a new lending system with the 3M company.16 And the sixth major publisher, Random House, places no restrictions on its digital titles.17 At the same time, Random House recently raised its prices for e-book sales to libraries so that the cost for some titles as much as tripled.

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Reminding the audience that the United States has more libraries than Starbucks locations, OverDrive's director of brand marketing and communications David Burleigh spoke to the close relationship of patrons» digital activities in library collections and those activities impact on sales and discoverability.

In an open letter to librarians explaining its switch to limit the number of check - outs a library can offer on an e-book, HarperCollins said that its previous policy of «selling e-books to libraries in perpetuity, if left unchanged, would undermine the emerging e-book eco-system, hurt the growing e-book channel, place additional pressure on physical bookstores, and in the end lead to a decrease in book sales and royalties paid to authors.9 Similarly, Simon & Schuster's executive vice president and chief digital officer Elinor Hirschhorn says that the company does not make its e-books available to libraries at all because «[w] e're concerned that authors and publishers are made whole by library e-lending and that they aren't losing sales that they might have made in another channel.»

For local authors and small publishers, libraries also have the potential to be strong partners for generating e-book sales, for providing access to other kinds of online and digital content, and for collaborating in the creation of new digital content based on the library's unique collections.

RBdigital is a Gold Sponsor of the conference, and LJ reached out to Jim Schmidt, RBdigital's Vice President of Sales & Marketing, to participate in this series of interviews addressing libraries» central role in the transformation of our culture from analog experiences to digital experiences.

Skip Dye, vice president, director of library and academic marketing and sales for Random House, discusses the publisher's views on ebooks in libraries as part of a series of Q&A s leading up to «The Digital Shift: Libraries, Ebooks and Beyond,» LJ's third annual ebook summit on Wednesday, Oclibraries as part of a series of Q&A s leading up to «The Digital Shift: Libraries, Ebooks and Beyond,» LJ's third annual ebook summit on Wednesday, OcLibraries, Ebooks and Beyond,» LJ's third annual ebook summit on Wednesday, October 17.

Focus Home Interactive has partnered with Microsoft to offer a week - long sale spanning the publisher's complete digital library of games on Xbox.

This is why publishers have so much trouble pricing digital products and other items for sale to a law society library.

OverDrive, the largest distributor of digital materials to libraries, is also providing the sales platform for paid e-book sales on Pottermore.com.