Many new sites are rising up that help facilitate
the ebook lending process such as Lendle, and eBook Fling.
How «frictionless» will they think the current
ebook lending process is?
Overdrive is the leading company that facilitates the digital
eBook lending process from your public libraries.
Not exact matches
This program will serve a twofold purpose, first in offering libraries and their patrons even more
ebook content for
lending programs, and second in terms of helping indie authors in the
process of getting their books discovered by a larger public audience.
Overdrive is the largest company in the world that facilitates the
lending process of
ebooks to your local library.
While
ebook lending has grown fast among US public libraries, the
process is not always seamless.
Amazon's entry into public libraries and their own
lending process through the Prime program has just quadrupled the activity in
ebook lending.
«The 3M Cloud Library
eBook lending service has simplified the discovery, browsing and check out
process for
eBooks so that more patrons can enjoy the digital content their library provides.»
A cadre of authors thought that
ebook lending website LendInk was pirating their
eBooks, when it only helped facilitate the
lending process that the authors had opted in for, when they uploaded their books for sale on Amazon or Barnes and Noble.
The 3M
ebook lending library program is based on the specific needs that libraries have faced throughout the
process of trying
lend digital materials.
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.
Libraries and publishers will eventually figure out the user interface and back office
processes, and once they do library
ebook lending will accelerate in popularity.
I see patrons eventually moving beyond
ebook lending from their libraries if it continues to be an unattractive
process.