Just a day before Rakuten's announcement of its Walmart partnership, Kobo announced a Kobo Originals program, «offering readers exclusive
ebook and audiobook content.»
This serialized fiction series is all apart of the Kobo Originals program that launched in January, to offer readers exclusive original
eBook and audiobook content.
Kobo Originals program, offering readers exclusive original
eBook and audiobook content.
Not exact matches
Two adults
and up to four teens
and four child profiles may link in a «Household,» allowing everyone in the family to enjoy Prime benefits (free shipping, Prime Video, Prime Photos
and share
content like
ebooks,
audiobooks, games,
and apps) without paying extra.
Whether it is sharing our
eBooks or
audiobooks together or watching TV shows
and movies, hoopla offers a range of family
content and an experience that can be enjoyed across screens — all with a library card.»
And with Fire tablets content sharing extends beyond ebooks to other Amazon content, including apps, games, audiobooks, and Prime Instant Vid
And with Fire tablets
content sharing extends beyond
ebooks to other Amazon
content, including apps, games,
audiobooks,
and Prime Instant Vid
and Prime Instant Video.
Not to mention this is a huge boon for indie developers who are releasing high quality
audiobook and ebook apps on the Apple platform, where users pay to unlock certain features or purchase
content.
eBook lending, along with movie, music,
and audiobook streaming, is helping these entities keep their doors open by offering the
content their patrons need in the... [Read more...]
Overdrive is well known as the premier
eBook content distribution platform that libraries use to facilitate the lending of digital books,
audiobooks, videos
and more.
Severely Limited in What You Can Buy outside the USA You Have to Be a Prime Member to Enjoy Many Features Overdrive Library
eBooks Could Be Simpler
Audiobook Program Has Few Options for Optimization Side - Loaded Apps
and Content Look Very Pixelated on the Main Carousel
Zinio has magazines to sell
and most libraries only offer
eBooks,
Audiobooks and video for their multimedia
content.
Libraries that do business with Overdrive
and Baker
and Taylor both enjoy
audiobooks,
eBooks,
and other multimedia
content.
Most libraries in North American tend to do business with Overdrive to facilitate their
content distribution system for
ebooks,
audiobooks,
and video.
Authors, writers, publishers of
eBooks,
audiobooks and short texts can... A) sell their
eBook through their author page on XinXii - without author contract - in real - time, without technical skills - with an own authorpage
and online shop - enter all information such as description, tags, cover, price... - upload an
eBook in one or multiple formats: PDF, ePub, mobi, doc, xls... - high royalties per download - consolidated real - time sales reports - keeping full editorial
and copyright control or B) sell their
eBook through their author page on XinXii
and additionally on major
eBook retailers - we convert
eBooks to the ePub
and mobi format for free - we distribute to the leading
eBook - shops all over the world for free - we provide consolidated sales reports Readers have... - the opportunity to discover new titles in all categories
and genres - an easy access to a huge variety of
content - can instantly download after purchase - have the opportunity to rate
and comment on
eBooks
Ingram Library Services, a leading provider of comprehensive services to public libraries, including access to over 16.5 M titles, has teamed up with ODILO, an internationally recognized leader
and provider of technology
and digital
content for US libraries
and schools, to expand the collections of multilingual
eBooks and audiobooks for library patrons.
Having mobile LTE access allows you to access movies,
ebooks,
audiobooks,
and other interactive
content on the go.
«This exciting new partnership with Ingram allows us to greatly expand the breadth, depth,
and quality of
eBooks and audiobooks our library partners can make available directly to their patrons,» said Brad Rose, Vice President of
Content Strategy at hoopla digital.
yeah, when Amazon introduced this feature, you can share
audiobooks,
eBooks and a ton of other
content with each other.
The
content was preloaded in the factory
and came with thousands of
eBooks and audiobooks.
Along with comprehensive training
and support tools, the
Content Acquisition Tool allows Librarians to easily curate their own collection from a catalog with several hundred thousand
eBooks and digital
audiobooks.
You can buy
eBooks,
audiobooks, apps, movies, television shows
and any other core digital
content Amazon sells.
You can shop for
audiobooks,
eBooks, music, video,
and a slew of other
content.
Speaking of the development, Rich Freese, President
and CEO of Recorded Books said, «We are excited to work with Wasserstein & Co., whose expertise in the stewardship of
content - owning media businesses will enable us to expand our leadership position in the
audiobook,
eBook,
and digital
content markets.
They are the current market leader in
audiobooks,
eBooks and video
content.
You will find all sorts of
content here, such as
eBooks,
audiobooks and e-Singles by Atavist.
eBook lending, along with movie, music,
and audiobook streaming, is helping these entities keep their doors open by offering the
content their patrons need in the platforms they want to consumer it.
Additionally, there will be new co-branded Kobo
and Walmart e-reader apps for purchasing
content online (both
ebooks and audiobooks), with Walmart also offering digital book cards in its stores.
One of the anticipated major trends of 2013, at least according to the companies showcasing their platforms at last January's Digital Book World event, was supposed to be online retail stores branded specifically to publishers
and authors, essentially letting publishers cut out the retailer altogether when it can to
ebooks,
audiobooks,
and other downloadable
content.
Overdrive announced a new Cost Per Circ system last year
and it allows libraries to have a huge influx of digital
content that can loaned out to as many users as they want simultaneously
and libraries only pay when the
audiobook or
ebook is actually borrowed.
The Bowker
content is to comprise «metadata from
audiobooks,
ebooks and print titles, along with value - added
content such as author biographies, awards, bestseller citations, covers, full - text reviews
and more.»
«There's a high —
and growing — demand for
eBooks and audiobooks, especially children's
content.
«Digital
content (
eBooks and audiobooks) work just like physical books.
OverDrive's magazine service features no circulation cap, simultaneous use for titles,
and premium
content, all conveniently integrated into the same platform users come to for their
eBook and audiobooks.
Fowlie was speaking to the fact that
audiobooks continue to have a much higher price point than both
ebooks and print books,
and that
audiobooks tend to sell well given the low volume of
content available to
audiobook fans.
Our RBdigital platform distributes the broadest array of digital
content types - including
audiobooks, video, magazines,
eBooks, education,
and entertainment - all in one powerful app.
For three decades, OverDrive has worked exclusively with digital
content, a true pioneer in the evolution
and adoption of
eBooks and audiobooks.
Notable events have included its kick - off in New York City's Central Park
and the Library of Congress's National Book Festival in Washington, D.C. Patrons who visit the traveling
ebook library can sample
content from OverDrive's catalog of over one million titles, as well as streaming audio
and video,
audiobook downloads,
and more.
Neighboring libraries have even created friendly competitions to see who can circulate the most
eBooks,
audiobooks and other digital
content.
Overdrive, the leading facilitator of digital
content to libraries, will be providing the
audiobooks and ebooks for the schools.
Hachette saw 22 % of their entire revenue come exclusively from digital
content such as
ebooks and audiobooks which is a far cry from 8 % in 2011.
Over the past five years many of us have come to understand Amazon's Kindle
and now the Kindle Fire as a seamless, friction - free, almost instantaneous
content delivery system for a growing catalog of entertainment
and / or educational
content that began with
ebooks and now includes newspapers
and magazines, blogs,
audiobooks, music, movies, television programming, games
and productivity apps,
and other web
content.
Today, emerging crossmedia business models, such as film / publishing company Cinestate
and audiobook /
ebook subscription streaming service Storytel,
and storytelling platform oolipo, allow
content creators to envision a new kind of world, uninhibited by format or borders.
Libraries can easily expand their collections by including
eBooks,
audiobooks, magazines, movies, music, newspapers, multimedia educational material, videos
and local
content.
You will find here deals not only on devices, but also cases, accessories,
and digital
content, including
ebooks,
audiobooks, or subscriptions.
So we're a worldwide company,
and our focus is to work with our library
and school partners to provide digital
content in
eBooks,
audiobooks,
and streaming video for their patrons at public
and school libraries.»
Most libraries now digitize a good portion of their
content in the form of
eBooks and audiobooks that are digitally available for certain windows of time, meaning you no longer have to risk late fees or even leave the house to access these books.
Granted, those business segments are still dwarfed by OverDrive's core business: 95 % of all U.S. public libraries use the company's technology to lend out
ebooks,
audiobooks and other electronic
content —
content that disappears when the lending period ends.
However Kristi Chadwick, access services supervisor of C / W MARS Inc., told LJ that according to
Content Reserve, the date for both
ebooks and audiobooks is April 30.
«Play Books has also been around for a long time, offering over 5 million
ebooks in 75 countries,
and interest in
audiobooks is on the rise, along with audio
content generally (e.g. digital music, podcasts, etc.).