Sentences with phrase «ebook access»
Some regular library patrons were pleased with the improved ebook access upon learning about it.
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Even when we want to acquire ebooks, the poor quality of ebook access and functionality are compromising their potential and killing the market.
So how do we maximise ebook access across all groups and price points so that no - one misses out, including our authors and publishers.
Yesterday E Ink announced a new collaborative ebook access program with Kobo that gives manufactures of E Ink devices the opportunity to offer Kobo's ebooks on their ebook readers.
We have options which increase library ebook access for today's patrons — but the marketplace they create doesn't always reflect libraries» best interests, and that's going to affect tomorrow's patrons.
Finding ways to make ebook access as simple as possible is vital for libraries, English contended.
When ebook platform Bilbary launches sometime in March or April, it will have something that can't be found in one uniform web location: ebook access from all of the Big Six publishers.
In a digital world vendors like Overdrive become an added barrier to public ebook access.
By adding the Bilbary button to their online catalogs, libraries can offer great ebook access to their patrons.
And although major publishers now seem to have come to terms with a need to make ebook access available to library patrons, the large subset of independent authors has found little joy among the stacks.
Christian Damke, the founder of Skoobe mentioned «Skoobe aims to enlarge the market for major publishers by offering easy ebook access to price - sensitive readers who don't necessarily want to own the books.
They are closing their international eBook access (excluding the UK) next month.
LIVE has provided statewide ebook access to North Carolina's public and academic libraries since the early days of NetLibrary.
Right now, we have lots of options which protect ebook access via established distribution chains and publisher agreements — but they also limit it through DRM, restricted format support, and outright refusal by some publishers to sell ebooks to libraries.
The delivery of remote ebook access has been a highly successful initiative, with many services seeing increased demand, including the return of those who had ceased using the library service.
It is a three tier robust protection system with eBook encryption, eBook accessing device control and User authentication.
Initiatives from publishers such as those intended to drive efficiency and streamline lawyer workflow, deliver technology that seeks to transform the way that the legal profession writes about the law, platform innovation to revisit eBook access strategy and other platform improvements may help to ensure that professional advisers and the clients they serve continue to operate in a quality environment.
AmLaw 100 firms often have a head office in New York City, and they have ebook access through a local service
The ReadersFirst Working Group is an active community of libraries working together to improve ebooks access.
Led by ALA President Sari Feldman and DCWG Cochairs Carolyn Anthony and Erika Linke, representatives meet with major publishers and other publishing stakeholders to highlight the library community's valuable role in the publishing and reading ecosystem and to urge improved terms for library ebook access.
Reading over the study, however, one statement struck me as the most telling: ``... students are even more frustrated with the ebook access and download process — and having to juggle multiple vendors, accounts, passwords, etc. — than are the librarians.»
The most directly relevant project to ebook access and libraries may be GITenberg, which intends to help libraries use and maintain Project Gutenberg's (PG) 45,000 public domain ebooks to serve their communities — with GitHub, a code - sharing and hosting platform.
It must be an optimized version of Kobo's Android app that they are using for this ebook access program.
In her 2013 «Ebook Access» article for Online Researcher, Sue Polanka wrote «[Aggregators] must do an excellent job curating collections in order to generate [library] interest and sales.