Sentences with phrase «e-book borrower»

«If the book is a «quick read» [or] fiction, and if I am not likely to make highlights and notes, I don't mind borrowing [an e-book],» an e-book borrower in her late twenties wrote, «but if it is a factbook, or if I make notes and highlights... I want to access my notes in the future.

What is a typical e-book borrower like?

Most e-book borrowers say libraries are very important to them and their families and they are heavy readers in all formats, including books they bought and books lent to them.

56 % of e-book borrowers said that at one point or another they had tried to borrow a particular book and found that the library did not carry it.

52 % of e-book borrowers said that at one point or another they discovered there was a waiting list to borrow the book.

While some publishers worry that e-book borrowers don't buy books, a recent study suggests 41 percent of readers purchased the last e-book they borrowed.

By contrast, our online panel of e-book borrowers usually preferred to borrow books, and were very particular about which books they chose to purchase.

Younger e-book borrowers in our online panel had mixed views on how e-book borrowing had affected their library habits.

18 % of e-book borrowers said that at one point or another they found that the e-book they were interested in was not compatible with the e-reading device they were using.

«Earlier this year independent consumer research, conducted during four e-book lending pilots, revealed that 39 % of e-book borrowers from public libraries were much less likely to purchase print books in bookshops (and also make fewer visits to physical libraries).

In our survey, 52 % of e-book borrowers in 2011 had found that there was a waiting list for an e-book they wished to borrow from the public library.

For many in our online respondent pool of e-book borrowers, tracking down the right file format was an occasional but persistent headache.

It examines the potential frustrations e-book borrowers can encounter when checking out digital titles, such as long wait lists and compatibility issues.

56 % of e-book borrowers from libraries say that at one point or another they had tried to borrow a particular book and found that the library did not carry it.

For some e-book borrowers, however, system labels and nomenclature was not necessarily intuitive.

About half of these e-book borrowers had borrowed an e-book five or fewer times in the past 12 months.

Finally, though many library staff members said that they could do more to raise patrons» awareness of e-book lending, some said that there was no need to bring in more e-book borrowers until their e-book holdings could handle them.

Prior to 2011, e-book borrowers were able to check out several formats of e-books from their local libraries.

At the end of 2011, compatibility with the patron's e-reader was not the most prominent problem among those who borrowed e-books from a public library in the past 12 months; about one in five e-book borrowers (18 %) said they had wanted to borrow a particular e-book from their public library and found that it was not compatible with their e-book reading device.

E-book borrowers are also quite attached to their libraries, saying they are very important to them and their families and especially likely to say that they look first for e-books at their library.

When it comes to e-book borrowers, 33 % say they generally prefer to buy e-books and 57 % say they generally prefer to borrow them.

Generally tech - savvy, our respondents are also particularly heavy readers.30 When it comes to e-book borrowers, 33 % say they generally prefer to buy e-books and 57 % say they generally prefer to borrow them.

Focusing on those who do borrow e-books from libraries, two - thirds say the selection is good at their library: 32 % of e-book borrowers say the selection at their library is «good,» 18 % say it is «very good,» and 16 % say it is «excellent.»

Our online group of e-book borrowers offered some insight into how they decide whether to borrow or buy their books.

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

18 % of e-book borrowers say that at one point or another they found that an e-book they were interested in was not compatible with the e-reading device they were using.

Our online panel of e-book borrowers generally preferred to borrow books, and our respondents were often very particular about which books they chose to purchase.

The importance of buying books to e-book borrowers is also apparent when it comes to the places where they get book recommendations.

Amazon is allowing Kindle users to lend a book to a mate, but the UK Publishers Association reckons e-book borrowers should get down the library.

Not exact matches

Lenders and Borrowers can use any compatible e-book reader or a B&N e-reader app enabled device.

Countless borrowers of library e-books will want access to more than dwarf - sized local collections.

But with e-books, the borrower's name is not known by the library, which means Jones and her staff will probably be surveying them on the e-book site and seeking their donations there in novel ways.

Amazon.com is also offering other unique features to Kindle book borrowers, including the ability to make margin notes on an e-book.

Victoria, In the Kindle program where one e-book buyer can lend a book to another, Amazon simply makes the book inaccessible to the borrower after 14 days.

British Public libraries are renting e-books through organisations like Overdrive and providing them for their patrons — however this doesn't mean every single print book in the world is available to the borrower for free — in fact the choice to the public is still very limited.

Especially important to us under the proposed PRH licensing terms is that libraries will not be able to obtain an e-book for free lending until three months have elapsed from the date of publication, and that, moreover, only EPUB formats can be downloaded by the borrower.

Second, when the borrowers discover that they didn't finish with Amazon's 14 - day lending window, offer a link to buy the e-book and share a portion of the resulting revenue through Amazon's affiliate program.

It also allows borrowers to make notes in their copy of the e-book and to highlight certain passages; these markups are visible only to that user, not other library patrons or Amazon user.24 The service is only available to libraries, schools, and colleges in the U.S. 25

If anything, there may well be more incentive, since a borrowed e-book vanishes from a patron's e-reader device when the loan period ends even if the borrower wants to retain the copy for a few more days to finish it.

The non-e-book borrowers who were most likely to say their local library did not facilitate e-book borrowing included: African - Americans, Hispanics, and those under age 30 (especially those ages 16 - 17).

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.

More than half of borrowers said a greater range of books to borrow would lead to them buying fewer e-books, while 22 % they would buy more as a result.

The study showed that the impact on e-book buying was inconclusive - e — book borrowers tended to already buy high numbers of e-books, with a less than a third of people saying they were less likely to buy e-books in future, and the same number saying there were no more or less likely to buy e-books.