Kobo eReading Catalog - Kobo has a world - class
eBook catalog with over three million titles, including award winners, bestsellers, Indie Next List picks, free public - domain titles, and other recommendations.
Not exact matches
eReader owners should bring their Kindle, Nook, iPad or other e-Device
with USB cord (if applicable) to the Library (see dates, times and locations below) to ask questions and learn firsthand about how to borrow
eBooks from the Library
catalog.
Our
catalog includes over 18,000 publishers
with print books,
eBooks, online educational databases, audiobooks, video resources, makerspace materials, and more.
Publishers may offer
ebooks at a discount
with an annual subscription to the whole
catalog or publishers their your titles
with a scaled option of 10, 20, 30 for scaled discounts.
Library Directwill allow libraries to bundle books in Smashwords»
catalog and select the books based on sales ranking; partnered
with the new Pricing Manager which allows authors and publishers to set the prices that libraries will pay, even opting to make their titles free to libraries, the amount of
ebook titles that libraries can offer to patrons will increase.
While Smashwords has been the powerhouse pioneer for indie authors in its agreement
with OverDrive to allow libraries to access the Smashwords
catalog, there is still a stigma in place that blocks libraries from seeing this
catalog as a viable option for
ebook content.
While the struggle for a satisfactory condition continues in the world of
ebook lending for public libraries, some companies are still managing to make progress
with digital
catalogs.
Gardners Books is Britain's leading book, DVD, Blu - ray, and music CD wholesaler,
with over 4.5 million books and 150,000
ebooks available in their
catalog.
At yesterday's IDPF event, BiblioBoard's Mitchell Davis sat down
with Good eReader to talk about the new feature that was just launched
with Library Journal that will offer libraries a way to feel confident about including self - published
ebooks in their lending
catalogs.
Baker and Taylor have inked a new deal
with publisher Macmillan to have their entire back
catalog of 11,000
eBooks available for libraries.
3M Cloud Library was set up in the BEA Digital Zone to talk about its library lending offerings, but the real news from 3M lately was the recent partnership
with Smashwords that puts the
ebook distributor's titles in the
catalog for libraries to choose from.
With the popularity of comics - based TV shows and movies growing internationally, OverDrive's global
eBook catalog now also offers comics and graphic novels from IDW Publishing, Dark Horse Comics, BOOM!
Interestingly, the image only alludes to 600,000 titles available in the Amazon
catalog, not the full
ebook catalog, which could mean that Amazon would have the same problem
with acquiring content for lending that has plagued the
ebook subscription model since it first became news back in 2010.
«We are excited to partner
with Lulu.com to bring its
catalog of fantastic
eBooks to our rapidly growing community of millions of NOOK owners and readers,» said Jim Hilt, vice president of
eBooks at Barnes & Noble.
With a single click, patrons can download
eBooks, mp3 files, audiobooks, and more directly from your
catalog to their computer or mobile device.
BookBaby's partnership
with Bound Book Scanning is designed to help authors and publishers easily turn their back
catalog of printed books into
eBooks.
Our award winning NOOK, the
catalog of more than two million
eBooks available to instantly read, and new titles like those offered
with Lulu.com make NOOK the perfect choice for anyone who loves a great book.
El Paso Norte Press, Special Edition Books, and Traveling Press are part of the Digital Pulse Publishing Group,
with an international
catalog of full size paperback, hardcover and
ebook titles.
In keeping
with our commitment to provide access to entertaining and absorbing reads for lesbians everywhere Bella partners
with other publishers in presenting a vast
catalog of lesbian and women's paperbacks and
eBooks.
«There is clear demand for enhancing library
catalogs around the world
with information about
ebooks,» says George Oates, the project lead for Open Library.
ALA will meet face - to - face
with CEOs and executives from Simon & Schuster, Macmillan, and Penguin Group, three publishers who are currently preventing their titles from being part of
eBook lending
catalogs, although in Penguin's case the ban applies only to new releases published after November 2011.
Where the Amazon Kindle en Espanol
catalog launched in 2012
with a minor smattering of titles compared to its offering in English, that number of
ebooks has now doubled.
Test Drive Approved device requirements include compatibility
with the library's
eBook catalog, direct Wi - Fi checkout and
eBook download via an on - board browser or app, and copyright protection (DRM) and lending practices that conform to rules as required by publisher permissions.
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.
Smashwords has successfully convinced Overdrive that there is value
with their
catalog of 300,000
eBooks, 200,000 of which are available to libraries.
«This spike in library lending of
eBooks, audiobooks, and streaming video is the result of the tremendous efforts of thousands of librarians, as well as significant ease - of - use improvements including seamless integration
with library
catalogs,» said Shannon Lichty, OverDrive's Director of Partner Services.
Significant growth of
catalogs of enhanced
eBooks featuring rich graphics, synchronized narrated audio
with highlighted text (Read - Alongs), and the addition of thousands of comics and graphic novels.
Despite its position as one of the smaller
ebook aggregators, XinXii already hosts a
catalog of over 25,000
ebook titles from more than 15,000 authors,
with new content being added to the collection daily.
New opportunities through periodical platforms like Next Issue, PressReader, and Zinio, as well as
ebook catalogs through Freading, Boopsie, and Smashwords» unprecedented distribution agreement
with OverDrive have meant that not only do libraries have options for providing relevant formats to their patrons, but they also have competitive choices that can lead to better budget options.
Update: The Overdrive Blog has been updated
with the following information «Earlier this week, we became aware that a number of
eBooks added to our
catalog this year were lacking the Kindle format.
«OverDrive's school
eBook catalog has also reached record size,
with 24 % growth over the last year, adding more than 100,000 new titles and bringing the total digital
catalog available to schools to more than 2 million titles.
Publishers have imposed boycotts on
ebook lending, issued impossible pricing strategies for digital content, and even removed titles from the lending
catalogs, all of which have all left libraries at odds
with the publishers as they struggle to provide quality reading content for their patrons.
In order for Recorded Books to be a viable business proposition going forward they will have to establish more relations
with publishers to enhance their
eBook catalog.
While other
ebook subscription startups have been around for years, Oyster and Scribd have made the most headway
with not only enticing readers into the benefits of their programs, but also in working
with some publishers to put their titles in the
catalogs with the most viable compensation models so far.
Known for strong customer support, free online tutorials, and aggressive prices, BooksOnBoard has the largest
eBook catalog online
with over 220,000 titles.
In addition to selling books at its own online store
with the lowest fee of any retailer listed here (15 %), the Smashwords Premium
Catalog offers authors and small publishers a way to distribute their titles across a variety of retailers, including Apple's iBookstore, the Sony
eBook Store, Barnes & Noble, Kobo, and others.
For that reason we're teaming up
with Marc D'Hooghe at http://www.freeliterature.org/ to digitize and proofread texts for inclusion in our own
ebook catalog as well as for Project Gutenberg's.
Copy Editing, to Cover Design, to Interior Layout,
eBook creation, Advanced Reader Copies, Global Distribution, Ingram
Catalog, Virtual Assistance, one year Membership in AuthorU.org, full registration at the Author U annual Extravaganza, one year membership in APSS, Author Photo Shoot, Crowdfunding Platform, Printing Discounts, Platform Strategy Session, National Top 10 Library or a National Top 10 Independent Bookstore sales campaign, One - on - One sales presentation to 20 buyers and Librarians across North America, BookBar in Colorado will carry book
with 100 % of sales going to author, the Tattered Cover Press print package, entry into both the USA Best Book Awards and International Book Awards, $ 300 in legal assistance.
The first thing to understand about
ebook spam, pirated content, and PLR content (PLR books are titles that were written by one author
with the intention of selling that title to other would - be authors who wish to put their names on it and sell it as their own original work, resulting in multiple copies of the same worthless book flooding the
catalog) is that the various retailers and distributors who make
ebooks available to the general public are all doing their utmost to protect the integrity of their
catalogs.
This week, OverDrive is meeting
with major international and domestic publishers at the Frankfurt Book Fair — arguably the largest publishing industry event of its kind — to unveil its «Want It Now» (WIN)
catalog for
ebook - lending.
Random House Children's Books, the publisher of multi-award winning and best - selling children's author Dr. Seuss» entire
catalog of children's content, announced today that it would begin releasing most of the author's forty - four books as
ebooks for young readers, starting
with fifteen titles near the end of this month.
Located in California, the library system established a partnership
with Smashwords that will let the libraries» patrons check out
ebooks from a
catalog of 10,000 digital titles in Smashwords» platform on a one - at - a-time basis.
Recently Bookbaby worked in conjuntion
with the Government Services Administration (GSA) to modify its Terms of Service and discount schedule, clearing the way for US government agencies to utilize BookBaby
eBook publishing products and services for its entire
catalog of brochures, reports, and information.
Smashwords announced last week that authors have now uploaded a 100,000 th title to its
catalog, BookBaby is constantly unveiling new features for both print and digital self - publishing and developing partnerships
with even more online ebookstores, even Amazon's KDP Select venue is continuing to gain popularity
with both self - published authors and the Kindle Prime member - readers who borrow those
ebooks.
There are also the swarms of self - published authors clogging up the online retail
catalogs with their unvetted
ebooks to ruin things as well.
The new global company has already forged partnerships
with several major names in children's content to bring digital and
ebook content to those companies»
catalogs.
No one argues that the
ebook market is saturated
with content (to the point that book discovery has been a buzzworthy topic for years now); in fact, a report emerged last week that Amazon now contains over 5 million
ebooks in its retail
catalog.
Legimi is the largest
ebook subscription service in Poland and the company has ironed out an agreement
with Pocketbook to include support for their entire
ebook catalog for paid subscribers.
In early 2016 Kobo started selling e-books and e-readers via D&R, which offers a localized eBookstore
with a library of over 15,000 Turkish language
eBooks, and a global
catalog of 4.7 million
eBooks.
Oyster has already inked deals
with a number of major publishers and
with ebook distribution and self - publishing platform Smashwords, which has helped ensure a growing
catalog of content for subscribers to choose from.