Sentences with phrase «ebook lending platforms»

Unlike traditional ebook lending platforms, which are cumbersome and difficult for readers to use, our JukePop system is simple.

OverDrive, one of the nation's leading ebook lending platforms that supplies the ebook titles to school and public libraries that offer digital lending services, will once again be bringing its tractor - trailer bookmobile on the road, this time attending this weekend's National Book Festival in Washington, D.C.

OverDrive, one of the nation's leading ebook lending platforms that supplies the ebook titles to school and public libraries that offer digital lending services, will once again be bringing its tractor - trailer bookmobile on the road, this time attending this weekend's National Book Festival in Washington,... [Read more...]

The problem revolves around existing library eBook lending platforms and can be summed up as follows:

eBook Lending Platforms — p. 22 by John Novak — For the purposes of this article, the definition of an eBook lending platform is one that contains eBooks from multiple publishers that patrons may browse and checkout.

Library Ideas «ebook lending platform Freading, which will be upgrading next month to include new content and new publishers, is an entirely different take on the concept of book borrowing.

Over in the land of the free (and the home of the brave) Amazon has unleashed its much rumoured ebook lending platform, entitled Kindle Owners» Lending Library.And there's a heavy emphasis on the word «Owners» as you'll actually have to be rocking one... Read more

There are still lots of options to customise font types and sizes, as well as margins, and all the exclusive features we love — like the ability to sync with Pocket (so you can easily read saved web articles in more comfort, whenever you like) and support for the OverDrive ebook lending platform (which is widely used by Australian libraries)-- are still in place.

But this will only work if a library has a system set up in place to accept these types of donations, and if the ebook lending platform allows for you to buy specific books (instead of a Netflix - like subscription where you don't get to pick individual titles).

It launched an ebook lending platform for libraries — in 2002.

Not exact matches

Libraries use different systems for ebook lending, many of which don't communicate effectively with one another — so if a publisher chooses one platform over another, many libraries will have to do without their titles in electronic form.

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.

Overdrive is well known as the premier eBook content distribution platform that libraries use to facilitate the lending of digital books, audiobooks, videos and more.

The Literary Platform has an absolutely fascinating article about how ebook lending is taking place in Sweden.

Currently, a large number of publishers have prevented or pulled their titles from eBook lending catalogs, the platforms that enable public library patrons to borrow digital editions of books on their own reading - enabled devices.

«Public libraries utilizing OverDrive's Next Generation digital lending platform served a record number of eBook, audiobook, music and video titles to patrons on Christmas Day.

Their participation helps towards the stripping of copyrighted status, but also allows the library to loan the ebook to their patrons through Unglue.it's lending platform.

In the meantime, OverDrive introduced its WIN platform that works to make ebook lending even more beneficial for libraries, publishers, and patrons.

eBook lending, along with movie, music, and audiobook streaming, is helping these entities keep their doors open by offering the content their patrons need in the platforms they want to consumer it.

In addition, the cloudLibrary ™ digital platform powers eBook and eAudiobook lending at a further 3,000 libraries.

While many e-reader recipients would logically be expected to open user accounts with the platform that serves their e-readers and then follow through with a few ebook purchases in the post-gift giving excitement, it actually speaks volumes about where consumers choose to spend their dollars and lend their support that patrons were checking out ebooks on Christmas.

My opinion is that it would be worthwhile for both libraries and indie and self - published authors to find or create a platform for indie, small press and self - pubbed authors to have a way of distributing and lending their ebooks in the library space.

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.

I understand that ebooks are a tougher nut to crack because you can lend out as many copies of the same book as you please, that's why a legitimate way to lend needs to be created across platforms.

The Enki platform is designed to host and lend library - managed ebooks using the Douglas County model.

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.

With the wealth of ebooks titles available and an increase in the use of digital indie publishing platforms which enable authors to post their own works as ebooks, more and more readers are turning to ebook lending libraries and websites for content, especially in recent months when best - selling titles have often been marketed at a very similar price point to their print counterparts.

By establishing distribution deals with not only all of the major ebook retailers and a host of often overlooked, lesser known retail platforms, Smashwords has also inked distribution deals with Scrib, Oyster, and OverDrive, giving indie authors the chance to put their works in subscription - based and public library lending opportunities.

Overdrive is the main platform used for lending ebooks via most libraries based in the United States and Canada.

Weaknesses — No SD Card slot, no wireless, no good ebook store to back it up, no reading apps for other platforms, no browser, terrible use of touch capability, no speakers, no text to speech feature, no lending.

OverDrive is the leading platform for ebook and audiobook lending to public and school libraries, with over 30,000 supported libraries worldwide.

Consider using your author platform to promote your local library's eBook lending policy and make friends with your local library ahead of time.

When Penguin announced last week that it was disabling library ebook lending on the Kindle and pulling its latest ebook titles from all library lending platforms, libraries and readers took the hit, but to some observers they were collateral damage in a fight between publishers and Amazon about the control of publishers» titles... Indeed, Penguin's move suggests that the publishing industry's long - simmering concern over Amazon's dominant position and its aggressive new ventures in the ebook market are coming to a boil.

OdiloTID USA is delighted to announce that OdiloConsortia: the Odilo eBook Platform for eBook purchasing, management and lending, will power the Colorado Statewide eBook Pilot project (eVokeColorado) funded by a recent LSTA / IMLS grant.

Odilo is delighted to announce that OdiloConsortia, the Odilo eBook Platform for eBook purchasing, management and lending, will power the State Library of New South Wales eBook Management Platform Pilot project.

By contrast, DRM locks — and related restrictions on things like lending or moving ebooks to a different platform — make the whole process of buying ebooks so complicated and unfriendly that many book lovers don't even bother doing it in the first place.

The most borrowed eBooks and Audiobooks from libraries list is based on data from 34,000 libraries and schools worldwide that lend eBooks, audiobooks and other digital media via the OverDrive platform.

Getting rid of DRM would allow libraries to invest more in ebooks as it would make cross platform lending possible.

Continue reading Public libraries in Colorado to use the Odilo eBook platform for purchasing, management, and lending →

The company's digital arm provides audiobook and eBook lending to the library market through the RBdigital platform, alongside several other platforms specializing in same - day newspapers and magazines, adult learning and language tutorial programs.

University Press Scholarship Online and Oxford Reference as platforms do not have the technical ability to «lend» ebooks.

This is a technical restriction (they don't have the capability yet) as opposed to a policy decision that OUP won't lend ebooks via its own platform.