Sentences with phrase «e-book borrowing»

At the Seattle public - library system, e-book borrowing rose 32 % in the month after Kindle books became available, said Seattle's electronic - resources librarian
E-book borrowing had typically been rising 10 % or 15 % a month, he said.
At the Seattle public - library system, e-book borrowing rose 32 % in the month after Kindle books became available, said Seattle's electronic - resources librarian Kirk Blankenship.
In addition to conducting a representative phone survey, we also solicited thousands of comments online from library staff members and library patrons about their experiences in the relatively new world of e-books and e-book borrowing.
Similarly, patrons often wrote that e-book borrowing often complemented their established reading habits.
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).
I have done a lot of e-book borrowing, mostly kindle / nook person - to - person and ebook library.
E-book borrowing: Fully 90 % of public libraries have e-book lending programs, according to Information Policy and Access Center (IPAC) at the University of Maryland, and 62 % of adults say they know that their local libraries have such programs.
Right now, I think if you look at the major publishers who are involved in the publication of what the industry refers to as trade book, bestselling fiction and non-fiction works, they have very different positions with respect to e-book borrowing from libraries.
«We're customers of publishers, and publishers are losing money by not allowing e-book borrowing,» he said.
«I haven't seen a lot of evidence of piracy being a problem, since those who do offer [e-book borrowing] don't have that problem,» she said.
She said e-book borrowing demand at the Boston libraries more than tripled in December, compared to December 2010.
Irmscher said she is dubious that piracy is the main motivation for publishers who restrict e-book borrowing.
More than the willingness of publishers to allow e-book borrowing, libraries face dwindling budgets hit even harder in recent years by cash - strapped local governments.
«If enough publishers and libraries participate, I think e-book borrowing will be an important advancement for e-books,» said Gottheil.
«Demand for e-book borrowing has definitely gone up... dramatically recently,» said Laura Irmscher, collection development manager for the Boston Public Library, the nation's oldest with a central library and 26 branches.
The publishers who prevent e-book borrowing say they are mainly concerned about piracy of the copyrighted content.
He also described record growth in e-book borrowing, as well as OverDrive's latest innovation, which the company calls its WIN (for «Want It Now») Catalog of titles which library patrons can discover and purchase through the library web sites.
At the same time, there has been a drop in the number of people who do not know whether their local library has an e-book borrowing program.
Younger e-book borrowers in our online panel had mixed views on how e-book borrowing had affected their library habits.
However, the young respondents on our e-book borrowing panel did not all enjoy reading e-books on every device at their disposal.
Ervin likes using the Nook e-reader, sold by Barnes & Noble, which works with OverDrive software offered by her library and others in the Boston area's Minuteman Library Network for free e-book borrowing.
Many public libraries already offer e-book borrowing for free, subject to a library user loading special software on a desktop computer, mobile device or some e-book readers.
Ervin said she's not really misty - eyed for printed books and believes that soon enough, e-book borrowing will be much easier and more commonplace.
E-books you borrow from the library may soon be stored on the cloud and available to read in your web browser.
It also means that you won't be able to use the iBooks app to read books you purchase from Barnes & Noble or Sony, or the e-books you borrow from your library.
Adobe Digital Editions is a piece of software that allow you to transfer e-books you borrowed from the library or another bookstore and allow you to transfer them to your e-reader, smartphone or tablet.
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.
The e-books borrowed from libraries can be read on any Kindle device or on desktop and handheld computers running the Kindle e-reading app, Amazon.com said.
This means that e-Books borrowed by Amazon Prime members will pay record royalties until March.
He's reading e-books borrowed through their digital library system.
E-books you borrow from the library may soon be stored on the cloud and available to read in your web browser.

Not exact matches

Netflix - style video streaming is just one of the many perks included in the company's $ 99 - per - year Prime service, which also comes with music streaming, one free borrowed e-book per month, and, of course, free two - day shipping.
Overdrive is an app that lets you borrow e-books from the library.
Thanks to my tablet I can borrow books that are in the Kindle Format, or in the regular e-book format, since I can read those right off the Overdrive app.
Can a Kindle e-book be lent or borrowed?
On the e-book side, Amazon needed to boost the number of titles in their Kindle Lending Library, which allows Amazon Prime members to borrow e-books for free — the theory being that the Kindle Lending Library is only as valuable as the number of titles available to borrow.
For the first time, patrons of those libraries will be able to borrow fiction classics including The Great Gatsby and Misty of Chincoteague, along with newer bestsellers including Walter Isaacson's biography on Steve Jobs, in e-book form.
Libraries certainly dig being able to offer a huge collection of audiobooks and e-books and not have to pay for them individually, the libraries only pay when a patron borrows the title.
The company is the market leader when it comes to hooking up libraries with the power to purchase and distribute audiobooks and e-Books for patrons to borrow.
The essence of this service is to utilize Demand - Driven Acquisition that will allow libraries to display thousands of e-book titles and only pay when users borrow the e-book.
It only allows you to borrow audiobooks, e-books, music and video online via Overdrive and can't be used to check out hard copies of books.
A recent survey from library ebook supplier OverDrive finds that more than 120 million e-books and audiobooks were borrowed from libraries they supply in the first nine months of 2015, representing year - over-year growth of almost 20 %.
When a patron borrows an audiobook or e-book they normally expire after seven days.
Kobo is also the only brand that has Overdrive functionality baked right into select models, which allows you to borrow and read e-books directly from your public library.
The app was developed using open source software, giving public libraries around the country the ability to use the code to develop their own e-reader apps, and make borrowing free e-books easier for their patrons.
One of the big downsides about the Kobo Aura H2O Edition 2 is that you can not borrow e-books from the public library right on the device.
In 2014, he said Toronto residents borrowed 3.5 million e-books, e-audio books and e-videos — «mainly e-books
Bowles acknowledged this is a bigger concern with e-books because people don't have to physically go to the library to borrow and return them.
Libraries are continually growing their e-book collections and if you'd rather relax at home than make the trip to borrow a book, an e-reader lets you pick up many titles for two weeks without spending a dime or setting foot out the door.
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