Macmillan announced last week that it is adding its frontlist titles to its backlist pilot for public libraries, making its complete
ebook catalog available for the first time.
Digital content provider OverDrive made a monumental announcement today in saying that Macmillan has made its entire
ebook catalog available for the first time for lending through OverDrive's school library partners.
Two years later, all three had made their full
ebook catalogs available.
Not exact matches
As library
ebook lending for both academic and public institutions continues to make steady progress, libraries are finally able to «shop» the competition to provide the best user experience for their patrons, the largest
catalogs of bestselling titles, and investigate the
available features of different platforms.
Tim McCall, Penguin's Vice President of Online Sales and Marketing, said, «Penguin is looking forward to making our
catalog of
ebooks available to Follett and to its school library customers.»
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.
Much like the headache of licensing
ebooks to libraries stateside, Japanese patrons and librarians have been frustrated by the lack of bestselling and new release content
available for digital lending, for many of the same reasons that publishers in the US have balked at making their entire
catalogs available to libraries, namely fears that print sales will decline.
The company now has 500,000
eBook titles and 40,000 audiobooks that are
available for libraries to purchase and integrate into their digital
catalogs.
When you submit your book to the online database, your
eBook will also be
available in Gardners» wholesale
catalog for independent bookstores, online venders, and other 3rd party retailers.
Baker and Taylor have inked a new deal with publisher Macmillan to have their entire back
catalog of 11,000
eBooks available for libraries.
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.
The award - winning children's enhanced
ebook creators at zuuka's iStorytime have announced that their complete
catalog of titles, many of which are adaptations of some of the most beloved current children's films, are finally
available for Android - powered smartphones and tablets.
Do not write «Kindle Edition» or «
Ebook available in the Apple iBookstore;» otherwise it won't qualify for the Premium
Catalog.
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.
Not all
eBooks have this feature enabled, but the bookseller informed us that the majority of their online
catalog was
available as of press time.
Penguin Group, which announced last year that any books published after November 14 would not be
available for
ebook lending from libraries — and initially had said those
ebooks would not be
available for Kindle, but has since backed down from that statement — has now decided to pull its audiobook downloads from library
catalogs for books published on or after that same date.
Smashwords has successfully convinced Overdrive that there is value with their
catalog of 300,000
eBooks, 200,000 of which are
available to libraries.
«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.
They developed an online
ebook reader and have a grant program to make their entire bilingual
catalog available to a school for a year.
Catalog numbers weren't
available as of press time, but Spring Design claims that Borders will offer hundreds of thousands of
eBooks.
Available at the $ 40 backer level, backers can receive the
ebook collection on a custom card
catalog USB.
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.
While the
ebook is
available from Untreed's network of more than two hundred
ebook retailers in its distribution channels, readers who purchase the book from the Untreed Reads store, thereby providing the maximum amount of royalty for the author and the publisher, as well as bringing consumers to its storefront to discover its
catalog of
ebooks, will receive additional content for free, this time in the form of Francke's music.
If you're looking for a great mobile reading experience that offers the world's largest
catalog of
ebooks, including thousands of free
ebooks, we recommend the Kindle app,
available for free from the App Store or Google Play:
According to Stross, however, the constant headlines and boycotts of libraries just might fuel the fires for smaller publishers as consumers turn to the many
ebooks that independent authors and smaller houses are happily making
available for
ebook lending
catalogs.
OverDrive makes those
eBooks available to a
catalog system
available to libraries all over the planet, so that any library in OverDrive's network, should it choose to do so, can order copies of your
eBook and distribute it to its patrons.
This suspension will remain in place until we can guarantee that any inappropriate material, that has been
available through self published
eBooks, has been removed from the Kobo
eBook catalog.»
With an ever - growing
catalog of
ebook titles
available to digital readers from major distribution platforms, readers have more choices than ever for browsing and purchasing
ebooks.
As a result of the successful partnering with the Los Angeles Public Library and Cuyahoga County Public Library, Penguin is now making its full
eBook catalog, including DK titles,
available to all public libraries using Axis 360.
By displaying the
available ebooks in the various publisher
catalogs to patrons, as well as linking the libraries websites to several major online book selling retailers, libraries stand to benefit from the affiliates» program while patrons have the option to purchase
ebooks that their libraries may not offer.
The new agreement with the book publisher will eventually offer its full
catalog of
ebooks available for the first time on Apple's iBookstore in the UK.
Hachette Book Group's full
eBook catalog will be
available to libraries with no delay on new titles.
Kobo, whose line of devices includes
ebooks and tablets and whose
catalog includes more than four million titles, is already
available online in over 190 foreign markets and currently leads the field in access to foreign language titles.
Overdrive, the digital media supplier to libraries nationwide issued a statement noting the astronomical price increase: «As announced yesterday *, Hachette Digital is raising prices on its currently
available library
eBook catalog (roughly 3,500 titles with release dates of April 2010 and earlier) effective Oct. 1, 2012.
Meanwhile, OverDrive has also issued a statement, which clarifies that «existing Penguin
eBook titles in your library's
catalog are still
available and additional copies can be added» in other formats.
Elizabeth and Her German Garden is
available in both illustrated and free editions from our
ebook catalog.
When searching the New York Public Library
eBook catalog, at least two thirds of the books we saw weren't
available.
Last month Hoopla Digital expanded their
catalog of
ebooks and audiobooks that are
available for free through public libraries by signing a deal with Open Road Integrated Media.
If your school library also
eBooks in its
catalog from World Book and / or subscribes to OverDrive, these
eBooks are also
available to students during the summer.
Resource Lists for new
eBook titles added during the 2017 - 2018 school year are
available on the East Bay Educational Collaborative site under the
Catalog tab.
The Enchanted Castle is
available in free and illustrated editions from our
ebook catalog.
McGraw - Hill Professional, a division of McGraw Hill Education, and OverDrive announced today that the publisher's professional
ebook catalog is now
available for K — 12 school libraries and public libraries worldwide.
Sarah Houghton, Director of San Rafael Public Library, concurred that discovery via the
catalog is a problem, and adds that this takes on additional dimensions when it comes to free
ebook resources, such as those
available from Project Gutenberg, and when the
catalog is shared with other members of a consortium.
If libraries don't own
ebooks available through their
catalog, then they forego the right of first sale, right?
But Scribd has taken steps to obscure that messy reality for users wherever possible, matching up every audiobook with a corresponding
ebook whenever both versions of a given title are
available in its
catalog.
Simon & Schuster's full
catalog of
eBook titles are
available for pilot libraries to purchase for lending to their readers, or for readers to purchase through their library's website with the new Library BIN (Buy It Now) option.
Shelfie's De Gruyter partnership marks the first time that the publisher's full
catalog of titles will be
available to their individual customers in
ebook bundles.
OverDrive broke the news to its customers in an email on September 13, stating that «Hachette will be raising its
eBook prices on October 1, 2012 on their currently
available eBook catalog (~ 3,500
eBook titles with release dates of April 2010 and earlier).
Hachette's entire
catalog of 5,000
ebooks will now be
available through OverDrive, Baker & Taylor's Axis 360 platform, and the 3M Cloud Library, under a pricing and licensing model similar to the one employed by Random House.
When the description of your DRM - free bookshop begins with «
Available now through our website is Tor's entire
catalog of 2,500 +
eBook titles, including the entire Wheel of Time series.»