Sentences with phrase «ebook vendor overdrive»
Toronto Public Library just topped a list of US and Canadian libraries in terms of digital checkouts, according to library ebook vendor OverDrive.
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Kansas State Librarian Joanne Budler recently terminated the Kansas Digital Library Consortium's contract with ebook vendor OverDrive to become a beta tester of 3M's new Cloud Library ebook lending service.
Not exact matches
In a digital world vendors like Overdrive become an added barrier to public ebook access.
Overdrive, NYPL's digital media vendor (ebooks.nypl.org), is coming out with an iOS app for both ebooks and audiobooks soon.
Check out Bobbi L. Newman's comprehensive post, «Publishing Industry Forces OverDrive and Other Library eBook Vendors to Take a Giant Step Back,» for the whole story, including an amazing variety of links to other posts and articles, many from other extremely thoughtful librarians.
We don't usually mention particular vendors on our site (outside of our guide to library eBook vendors), but RF would like to thank OverDrive for being responsive and taking another small step in making thier sitre more library user friendly and in accord with RF principles.
When the Kansas Digital Library Consortium's contract with digital - content distributor OverDrive was up for renewal last year, two issues made Kansas State Librarian Joanne Budler decide it was time to move on and transfer the ebook titles to another vendor who could offer a better deal.
Distributes to: Apple, Barnes & Noble, Kobo, OverDrive, Scribd, Oyster, Baker & Taylor (operates Blio, a popular e-reading app, and also operates Axis360 which distributes ebooks to public libraries), txtr, mobile phone app vendors (Aldiko on Android; Kobo on all mobile platforms) and other online venues (must upload to KDP yourself)
Wow, I work in a library (that has Overdrive and several other eBook vendors), yet I hadn't heard about this app.
The panelists were Christopher Platt of the New York Public Library, Ruth Liebmann of Random House, George Coe from the book distributor Baker and Taylor and Steve Potash from Overdrive, a software company that provides ebooks to vendors and libraries, including the Los Angeles Public Library.
It includes well known retailers vendors such as Amazon and lesser known vendors such as NetLibrary and Overdrive that distribute eBooks through library sales programs.
It will allow all the libraries that have purchased ebooks from more than one vendor, including OverDrive, 3M's Cloud Library, and Baker & Taylor's Access 360 product, to seamlessly serve all those collections through a single application.
The library world was thrilled at the September 21 announcement that library vendor OverDrive had enabled its library customers to loan the ebooks they'd licensed from OverDrive to patrons with Kindle e-readers — provided that the ebooks were in Kindle - maker Amazon's sales inventory.
In its November decision to not allow library lending of its new titles (via any vendor), Penguin had initially also targeted OverDrive's relationship with Amazon as a particular concern, which led the company to demand that OverDrive disable the «Get for Kindle» functionality for all Penguin ebooks.