Sentences with phrase «ebook lending became»

There were even concerns that the ALA Midwinter conference might see some organized and heated protests by members in the exhibit hall where these publishers have set up booths, but several spoke about the futility of letting feelings over eBook lending become hostile.

In light of the need to reduce staff and cut operating hours, ebook lending becomes more vital than ever, especially under systems that allow patrons to browse for ebooks via the library websites and borrow them directly through the online portal for web - based or device agnostic reading.

Not exact matches

Three public library systems in Minnesota, overseeing a total of twenty - five individual libraries, became the most recent of the eighty library systems across the country to benefit from 3M Cloud Library eBook Lending Service's help in utilizing ebook lending for their pateBook Lending Service's help in utilizing ebook lending for their patebook lending for their patrons.

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.

I hope that more ebooks will become lending enabled so as to avoid losing that book - excitement - sharing that is an awesome part of reading.

We have no current plans to sue, and don't know of any authors who are planning to do so — we would hope that the Government would recognise its legal and moral responsibility to make payments to authors particularly as ebook lending from libraries is becoming significant.»

The main reason that lending sites will become the way people trade books comes to a question of quality of the ebook.

On the other hand, having become quite used to borrowing ebooks from my public library I was upset to find the ubiquitous library lending app Overdrive not supported here.

With schools starting to lend out tablets to their students and ebook reading becoming a normalized practice, many libraries are at a crossroads: embrace the digital age despite the financial burden and limitations it may impose or limit the library and its patrons from embracing 21st century digital trends in place of cost - effective book purchasing?

With the recent release of the Barnes and Noble Nook, lending ebooks to other devices has become a new feature.

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.

But eBook lending by libraries does not naturally hew to patron - district boundaries and has become an area of concern for publishers.