Sentences with phrase «ebook loans each year»

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A few years ago there was a dream where thousands of libraries all over the US and Canada would be able to loan out e-readers to patrons, in addition to eBooks.

We have created a method for Libraries to loan eBooks to each other and are trying a year - long pilot with Springer to refine it: http://occamsreader.org

In the past few years ALA has been petitioning major publishers to bring them onboard with the concept that loaning the eBooks out for free, does not devalue the work.

The typical mindset at work here is that many of the ebooks will be of use to them for a few months to about a year at the most, which prompts them to seek other alternatives so as not to end up drawing too much from their student finance loans.

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.

That means you sell them, in essence, the right to loan out your eBook for one year, or for a certain number of loans.

For an average 2 - week lending term, libraries would get a full year of lending for about US$ 10 - 20, based on typical ebook prices — that's about 40 - 80 cents a loan.

The email I received from a colleague who had given her 95 year old mother a Nook and was requesting the loan period on ebooks be increased to 28 days because her mom couldn't finish a book in less than that (and 28 days is the standard loan period for a print book at that library) told me that ereaders were in the hands of a population that no one expected.