Sentences with phrase «ebook lending model»

Gardners also provides an eBook lending model for a number of libraries, under which library members are restricted to one concurrent loan per purchased eBook.Gardners Books makes your eBook available in ePub format, so it will be readable on any ePub - compatible device (iPad, Nook, Sony Reader, Kobo Reader, etc.) With Gardners» wholesale pricing structure, you will earn 60 % of the list price you set for your eBook.
As US publishers and libraries still struggle to create a mutually beneficial yet fluid ebook lending model, Swedish company Atingo thinks they have the solution, one that has worked in several thousands public and school libraries in both Sweden and the UK.
All of this expansion serves to help libraries worldwide in their efforts to bring current digital content to their patrons, furthering the climate of digital publishing by enabling an ebook lending model that meets the publishers» and the consumers» needs.
Anna De Souza had this to say about her company's position on what transpired and how it might effect the future of the ebook lending model.
In a statement today the company said, «We have been working hard to develop an ebook lending model that works for all parties, as we value the libraries and the role they play in the reading community.
Bilbary, founded by former Waterstones CEO Tim Coates, was developed to bridge the divide that currently exists between publishers and libraries, as well as to offer an alternative to the current ebook lending model.
Gardners also provides an ebook lending model for a number of libraries, under which library members are restricted to one concurrent loan per purchased ebook.
When asked to rate several ebook lending models — including hypothetical lending models, models that are currently in use, and models that employ embargo periods — a majority of respondents ranked only one as «reasonable.»
Patrons were almost evenly split on their opinion of one of the most common ebook lending models — the one book, one user model.

Not exact matches

Refusal to simplify pricing models, and refusal to inter-operate among e-readers and lending systems, means that libraries will simply opt out of ebook adoption entirely — something they can't afford to do if they're going to stay relevant in the future.
She took a moment out of her busy schedule to discuss the evolutionary growth of ebooks in the library, how the discovery of content is a top priority, what it took to talk Simon & Schuster and Penguin into joining the library lending model, and how libraries are selling ebooks.
The essence of the pilot is to carry out real - time, real - world research into the impact of eBook lending in public libraries on authors, publishers and on the library service so that a suitable and sustainable model.
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.
According to the February 10 post in Publisher's Lunch, forcing patrons to come into the library to borrow ebooks is also the appropriate model for ebook lending.
Publishers need to move to a pay - per - use model in eBook lending.
When Coates spoke to GoodeReader in February about this lending model, those titles were reported to be coming from all of the Big Six publishers, something that public libraries have not been able to achieve for ebook lending.
As public libraries tried to shift their operation models to meet more people's needs and began installing computer labs, television viewing areas, audiobook listening rooms, and more, as well as spending their time and battling the issue of ebook lending, Coates explained that the money for actual borrowable books began to dwindle away.
Hachette Book Group eBooks will follow a one - copy / one - user lending model, and there will be no checkout or term limit for the titles on the OverDrive platform.
While hybris does not limit itself to the promotion of ebook content, adapting its model to the needs of all kinds of digital content providers, hybris does allow for a much more personalized product from the end to the user, lending itself well to the needs of ebook development.
One of the benefits to the subscriber libraries that comes from using a subscription model, at least at the onset of ebook lending, is it allows them to track patron usage, user interest, and overall lending data so that they can do a better job of applying their budgets to digital content.
The Enki platform is designed to host and lend library - managed ebooks using the Douglas County model.
ALA's most specific request was to expand the options for library ebook lending business models to give libraries more choice.
Excerpt from the Smashwords press release Adan just mentionned (http://blog.smashwords.com/2014/05/smashwords-and-overdrive-to-bring.html): «Per our agreement with OverDrive, libraries will lend purchased ebooks under the one copy / one user model, meaning each copy they purchase can be checked to only one reader at a time.»
ODILO's easy - to - use eBook platform, quality content, and flexible lending models (One - Copy / One - User, Pay - per - Use, Simultaneous, and Subscription) help schools and libraries better serve their students, educators, and families.
Denver, CO, January 12, 2017 — ODILO, a global leader in the eBook industry, reports an increased interest in the different lending models they offer, especially with their innovative Pay - per - Use (PpU), also known as pay - per - checkout.
I don't see it quite happening in the UK yet, but will look further into what you are doing to bring eBook lending into a rational model (while protecting the financial well - being of authors and publishers).
The goal was to establish real - time, real - world research into the impact of eBook lending in public libraries to placate authors, publishers and find a sustainable model.
The company explains that by some models, publishers can charge libraries for lending an ebook to an individual either since the time of the borrowing or since the reader actually picks up the book and reads it.
As it succeeds, as I am sure it will, it will expand its titles and supported devices and, if it can develop a sane remittance model for the publishers, it could well take command of the eBook lending landscape.
The model is self regulatory: ebook lending can't «hurt sales» since the publisher is free to manipulate prices for library circulation on each individual title.
The dominant model for ebook lending never really worked.
The Swedish model for ebook lending is different and it has set the stage for cooperation rather than antagonism.
Where the dominant paradigm sees ebooks as a commodity, the Swedish model treats ebook lending as a service and this has proved central to dismantling the antagonism between publishers and libraries.
Ingram MyiLibrary is offering a new credits - based «Access Purchase Model» for ebook lending that it promises will be equitable to both publishers and clients alike.
Per our agreement with OverDrive, libraries will lend purchased ebooks under the one copy / one user model, meaning each copy they purchase can be checked to only one reader at a time.
But he also said that it is important to appreciate that all the Big Six are trying to get a grasp on a difficult business model, noting that Simon & Schuster makes all of its best - selling audiobooks available to lend even if it does not make ebook titles available.
Penguin thus joins Simon & Schuster, Macmillan, and Hachette among the Big Six publishers in search of an ebook library lending model.
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