Sentences with phrase «ebook checkouts»

These services operate ebook checkout systems, and make it easy for libraries to purchase ebooks.

:) Unfortunately, this book isn't available for ebook checkout, so I'd have to pay actual money (gasp!

Close in nature to concepts like Amazon Prime, in which members have a pre-determined number of ebook checkouts for one annual membership price, Freading allows libraries to allot patrons virtual tokens that are exchanged for borrowable titles, tokens that are bought with actual money by the library, as opposed to a flat subscription price for using the catalog.

Under the DCL Model, libraries create their own ebook checkout systems and purchase books directly from publishers and distributors.

From licensing agreements over how many ebook checkouts a single library can use to how to put audio content on patrons» personal devices, the options have been not only limited, they've been somewhat cost prohibitive.

Basically, you will need two things: Adobe Digital Editions, and an account with the library of your choice (which must be set up to do ebook checkouts).

So if folks out there are aware of other systems that allow interesting ebook checkouts, share those too!

As a general FYI to Seattle - area folks, here are the pertinent links if you'd like to try out this shiny ebook checkout thing for yourselves:

In April 2003, starting with a modest collection of popular materials, Cleveland Public Library opened the first OverDrive «virtual branch» and pioneered ebook checkout.

This growth has resulted in an era when 95 % of public libraries offer ebook checkouts, and 66 % of school libraries offer digital circulation.

A survey on the perceptions of patron ebook checkout by librarians, most of who served in academic libraries, has shed some light on the check - out processes of patrons who borrow digital content from their libraries.

Penguin has been tracking ebook checkouts at libraries to make sure they are not cutting into paid book sales, and found that «the effect of library downloads on commercial revenues has been acceptable.»

The SimplyE platform is designed to integrate with the ILS and discovery layers, aggregating the collections from disparate e-content platforms (such as OverDrive, 3M / Bibliotheca, and Baker & Taylor) into one seamless interface for mobile ebook checkout.

Library Direct is available to libraries that host and manage their own ebook checkout systems, typically using Adobe Content Server, and that are capable of acquiring a large opening collection.

Update: Brian Downing, CEO of Library Ideas, reached out to GoodEReader with clarification of the token model for ebook checkouts.

Currently, the Smashwords Library Direct service is only available to a very small number of libraries who place large bulk orders and that operate their own ebook checkout (DRM) systems.

If there's a book I want to read that I don't want to put down money for up front, I already have a way to address that: the Seattle Public Library and the King County Library System, both of which are very friendly to ebook checkouts.

eBook checkouts have increased to more than one million in 2009, up from 600,000 in 2007, according to OverDrive.

In 2014 ten different libraries in Canada and the United States had over one million eBook checkouts.

Some of the popularity of ebook lending libraries that OverDrive has noted for the calendar year 2011 through September 30th include almost triple the number of ebook check - outs over all of 2010, more than two million new users signed up for this year, and a rise in smartphone reading to account for 21 % of all ebook checkouts.

And when your eBook checkout expires, you can check it out again or buy it from the Kindle store.

And library patrons are rapidly adopting ebooks: The New York Public Library had a record - breaking 36,000 ebook checkouts in December, particularly in the week after Christmas.

A&H currently powers the ebook checkout systems of 81 public library authorities in the U.K. comprised of 2,000 + public libraries.